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Mystery in the Den. In the years that followed, Lemnitzer settled purposefully into the orderly routine of the peacetime Army, started early his habit of retiring behind his "bear's den" door at night to read newspapers, magazines, technical journals ("I don't know," says wife Kay, "whether he goes in there to work, or read, or snooze"). He became the formidable but revered "Pop" to their two children: son William, now an Army captain and assistant professor of chemistry at West Point, and daughter Lois, wife of Artillery Lieut. Henry E. Simpson at Fort Sill, Okla...
Both Crimson crews step into the lion's den this weekend as the heavyweights take on Pennsylvania and Navy at Annapolis and the lightweights journey to Princeton for a triangular regatta with the Elis and Tigers...
...more than a century everyone had managed to get along just fine, even though part of the town was called Baarle-Hertog and was Belgian, and the other was called Baarle-Nassau and was Dutch. Then one day in 1939, a Belgian named Sooi Van Den Eijnde decided to lead his pigs across Lots 91 and 92. The Netherlands Railways, convinced that the lots were Dutch, had built nine houses there, and the Dutch customs official lived in one of them...
...that's Daniel, going into the lions' den," cracked a Washington reporter one warm afternoon last week. The Daniel: shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and front-running candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. The lions: the 51-man Council of Methodist Bishops (membership: 10 million), on a long-planned tour to talk with top ranking Washingtonians, including President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren, now waiting in Washington's Old Senate Office Building. Candidate Kennedy, head tucked in careful thought over each answer, was quizzed on his Roman Catholicism...
...National League Milwaukee nosed out the Philadelphia Phillies 4 to 3 in ten innings before 42,081 fans. The Braves picked up their third straight triumph on consecutive singles by Hank Aaron, Wes Covington, and Johnny O'Brien. Den McMahon was the winning pitcher. Chicago ruined San Francisco's opener 5 to 2, as Ernie Banks blasted two home runs...