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Friedrich Gogarten, 80, professor emeritus of systematic theology at Göttingen University in West Germany and currently visiting professor at the Methodists' Perkins School of Theology in Dallas...
Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was imprisoned in Northern Russia in 1918, waiting to be executed for anti-Bolshevik activities when he learned that Lenin had personally intervened to save his life...
...JAZZ PIANO (RCA Victor). Half a dozen pianists take the stage at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival to give a fine, festive survey of their art. The course starts with Contrary Motion, played by Willie "The Lion" Smith, professor emeritus of the bouncing left-hand "stride" piano, which Duke Ellington gracefully imitates in his impressionistic Second Portrait of the Lion. Starting out ever so simply in Somehow, Earl "Fatha" Hines soon fills all the spaces with increasingly intricate trills and runs. Most emotionally eloquent of the lot, Mary Lou Williams plays 45° Angle and Joycie with declarative force and powerful...
...lost three key men by graduation, two quit in favor of rugby, four were injured in our game with the Lampoon, and another resigned over our Vietnam policy," moaned Crimson sports editor emeritus Rhesus J. Portfolio after Saturday's unconvincing 23-2 victory over the Krokodiloes...
...Weed Factor. His world is New Tammany College; it is under the official aegis of the Founder (God), author of the Old Syllabus, and of his son, the Grand Tutor, whose system for passing the finals (death) is no longer valid, and who is known as the Shepherd Emeritus...