Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the international bridge connecting Communist China with the free British colony of Hong Kong last week walked two gaunt, hollow-eyed newsmen. After 18 months' imprisonment, NBC Correspondent Richard Applegate and I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon were released by the Chinese Communists. With them was a U.S. merchant marine officer, Ben Krasner, captured with them while they were cruising on Applegate's sailboat Kert in international waters west of Hong Kong...
MacDonald's classmate, right fielder Donald H. Butters '55 of Natick, received the Wingate Memorial Cup as the best all around player on the squad. And the Wendell Bat went to William J. Cleary, Jr. '56 of Winthrop House and Cambridge; Cleary gained the annual prize for having the highest agregate point total for runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, sacrifices, and safe arrivals at first...
...being defrayed by over 1,000 alumni contributors to a recent fund drive organized by the Working Friends of Harvard Hockey. The sum includes a gift of $100,000 from the late John W. Watson '22. The new building will be named for Watson's brother, the late Donald C. Watson '16, who quarter-backed the 1914 and 1915 varsity football teams...
...also had an audience with Colorado State G.O.P. Chairman Charles A. Haskell and two Colorado political candidates, Lieut. Governor Gordon Allott, who is running for the Senate, and Donald G. Brotzman, candidate for governor. Ike told the group that, on second thought, he does not like the "middle of the road" label he himself hung on his program. According to Haskell, Ike felt middle of the road implied a Government that does not take a firm stand. "Moderate" would be better, Ike seemed to feel. The President also had some sage political advice for Allott and Brotzman, urged that their...
...newsmen who vanished behind the Chinese Communist bamboo curtain more than a year ago were reported released this week. I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon, 26, and National Broadcasting Co. Correspondent Richard Applegate, 38, were captured by a Red gunboat while vacationing aboard their sailboat Kert in waters west of Hong Kong. Along with their U.S.-born captain, Dixon and Applegate were taken prisoner, accused of "intruding into China's waters." Repeated U.S. attempts to have them released failed. This week the Communist Peking radio announced that they and their skipper had been "deported" from Red China and were on their...