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...Kurt Heinrich Debus, 50, is the free world's most experienced rocket firer. Even-mannered, precise, saber-scarred from student dueling, he was once a professor at the Technical University at Darmstadt, Germany, started his rocket firing at Peenemunde in 1940. He fired more than 200 rockets in Germany (where an errant V-2 once missed him by 25 ft.). At war's end he came to the U.S. as part of the willing spoils of Hitler's defeated Germany, soon found himself in charge of all rocket firing for the Army...
Graduate students who received Bowdoin Prizes ($600) were Richard M. Ohmann 6G, in the Humanities, for "Prose Style: The Theoretical Background;" Paul Seaver 3G, in Social Studies, for "James Anthony Froude: An Excursion into Nineteenth Century Historiographical Controversy;" and Allen G. Debus 2G, Natural Sciences, for "The Introduction of the 'New Phisicke' in Elizabethan England...
...Natural Sciences division, $400 was given to Allen G. Debus...