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...Jones, the squash manager and Jeffrey L. Berenberg '63, of Quincy House and Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, was chosen undergraduate manager in wrestling. He will replace Pete Schwartz. Paul S. Horvitz '64, of Hurlbut Hall and Santurce, Puerto Rico, will become varsity manager. The undergraduate manager for track, D. Roger Ferguson '62, of Dunster House and Syracuse, New York, will remain in his position and managers for the fencing team will be chosen next week...
...Tennistar Karol Fageros, 26, whose broken ribs were mending in a Youngstown, Ohio hospital, after an Ohio Turnpike collision between a truck and a chartered bus carrying Karol and the New York Skyscrapers pro basketball team on an exhibition tour; Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson, 85, first woman ever elected a state Governor (in Texas in 1924, after her late husband, Governor James Ferguson, was impeached for misuse of state funds), recovering in an Austin hospital after a heart attack...
Fullback: Bob Ferguson, 21, Ohio State; 6 ft., 225 Ibs. A junior, Ferguson has surprising speed in addition to pure brute power. "He runs over people-the other guys, his own guys, everybody...
Died. Harry Ferguson, 75. industrial visionary and inventor who made millions on a handshake agreement with a friend named Henry Ford; apparently of a heart attack; in his remote stone mansion near Stow-on-the-Wold, England. A farm boy like Ford, Irish-born Ferguson saw machines as vehicles for worldwide peace and plenty, tinkered early with autos and planes, invented a radically new, hydraulically controlled, lightweight tractor that was produced by Ford, and at 71 showed off the prototype of a rugged, gearless, turbine-powered "wonder car." Shy but stubborn, Ferguson sued Henry Ford...
Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson was elected Governor of Texas in 1924, succeeding her husband, who was impeached and therefore ineligible for reelection. During the first of her two terms, she freed 3.600 convicts from the state penitentiary. In the early days of the New Deal, Florida's Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, served in Congress, later became Franklin Roosevelt's Minister to Denmark, the first woman to head a foreign mission. The doughty Frances Perkins became F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor-the first woman Cabinet member. Mary Teresa Norton went to Congress on the insistence...