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...strikers were straight out of the Social Register, Who's Who and Dun & Bradstreet: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit ney, Ogden Phipps and Captain Harry Guggenheim, to name just a few. Their spokesman was Jack Dreyfus Jr., senior partner of Dreyfus & Co., the Wall Street investment house. Dreyfus & Companions are horse owners, and what got them riled up last week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct...
...House. In order to head off Louttit's formal presentation of the heresy charge, Presiding Bishop John T. Hines had named an ad hoc committee to prepare a general statement that would reflect the consensus of the house. The committee was headed by the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, 74, the retired Bishop of Washington who, in 1946, ordained Pike to the priesthood. Dun's committee proposed rebuking Pike instead of trying him. The debate on its recommendation became in effect a trial by rhetoric-not so much of Pike as of the church itself...
Like all new Masters, Dun is concerned about what his new responsibilities will do to his academic career. "I came to Harvard intending to build up Celtic studies," he says. "Since 1940, when the department was founded, Harvard had only awarded two M.A.'s--and no Ph.D.'s--in Celtic. Everybody interested in the field was asked to do his work in English. Now we have nine Ph.D. candidates working in Celtic studies and we are accepting more...
...Kirkland team, with no juniors at all, is led by seniors Dave Taft, John Lesky, and Roger Noback and sophomores Tom Williamson, Dave Thomas, Bill Timpson and Dun Beller. Tuft's game average is an impressive 15 points...
...bookstores and record shops in nearby Telegraph Avenue's grimy red brick buildings. One frequent stopping place is a shoestore called Sandals Unlimited; another is a self-service laundry where the machines, arranged in pairs, bear student-humor names: Tristan and Isolde, Godliness and Cleanliness, Toulouse and Lautrec, Dun and Bradstreet, Anthony and Cleopatra...