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...leading contendor for first place, Army's Jim Warner, predictably took the lead after the second mile and despite a brief duel with Columbia's Conway, stayed ahead until the last half-mile when, looking back, he recognized fellow Army runner Paul DeCoursey as his only serious competitor and slowed down to end the race in a dead heat. Unfortunately for Warner, DeCoursey came faster than expected and passed him at the last second to win the meet. Army took five out of the top ten places, ranking first with a total of 30 points...
...Could there be immunization against radiation? Science should investigate the possibility said Colonel Elbert Decoursey, Army pathologist who studied atomic 'bomb victims at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He did not suggest exposing people to tiny atomic bombs as a way of building up resistance, but he did cite research with animals: rats that have been dehydrated (the amount of water in their bodies reduced) survived longer than other rats .when exposed to radiation; animals whose metabolism was slowed down before exposure also did better. Thousands of lives could be saved, Colonel Decoursey said hopefully (while the other doctors looked politely...
Commodore William A. W. Stewart of the New York Yacht Club last week made the following dry announcement: "Mr. DeCoursey Fales has been appointed treasurer of the club to fill the vacancy...
...DeCoursey Fales, Jr. '41, of Gladstone, New Jersey and Westmore Willcox 3rd, of New York, win the George Emerson Lowell stipends, awarded to Freshmen on the basis of a competitive examination held under the auspices of the Department of Classics...
...City; Daniel Fiske Jones '92, of Boston; Nathan Hayward '95, of Philadelphia; Albert Arnold Sprague '98, of Chicago; Robert Eliot Goodwin '01, of Concord; Albert Francis Bigelow '03, of Brookline; Trowbridge Calloway '05, of New York City; Robert Amory '06, of Milton; George Whitney '07, of New York City; DeCoursey Fales '11, of New York City; Christian Archibald Herter '15, of Boston; Richard Cary Curtis '16, of Boston; Francis Parkman '19, of Southboro; Barklie McKee Henry '24, of New York City; Winthrop John Vanleuven, Hon. '25, of New York City...