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Thompson, a Rhodes Scholar, is a former president of the CRIMSON and of the Union Debating Society. He is also a member of Phillips Brooks House and a varsity fencer. Meigs, the 1955 captain of the varsity football team, is president of the Undergraduate Athletic Council...
Cliff Thompson and Hubert Hocutt turned in the best records, each winning five of 11 matches. As was expected, the epee placed low, with no fencer passing the .500 mark. Doug Fitchen and Bill Chapple led the Crimson with five wins. In spite of the poor day's record the group beat five teams. Tomorrow, the sabre fences with little chance to improve the Crimson's overall standing...
Coach Eno Marion has persuaded Doug Fitchen, a successful epee fencer last year, to rejoin the varsity in an attempt to salvage a few points in this division. However unless Fitchen can inspire the epee team to four wins the Crimson has little hope regardless of success in the sabre and foil...
...fencing against Crimson fencer David T. Schwartz '59 when the accident occured. Roy lunged and Schwartz's blade entered a rip in his sleeve, the point striking him under the arm. The match was immediately stopped for examination of the wound. The injury appeared to be minor and it seemed that Roy was suffering primarily from shock, and he was helped to walk out of the room...
Died. Jiro Minami, 81, onetime hard-drinking, samurai-style Japanese army general (at 60 he was a good fencer, an expert with the broadsword), war minister in 1931, when the Japanese army marched into Manchuria, ambassador and commander-in-chief in Manchukuo 1934-36, tyrannical governor general of Korea 1936-42; of uremic poisoning; in Kamakura, Japan. In 1945, Minami was ordered arrested by General MacArthur with ten other class A war criminals; he was paroled last year from Tokyo's Sugamo Prison because of ill health...