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...example, when Commencement used to come on the first Wednesday of July, a total eclipse of the sun caused the Corporation to set the date a week forward. It remained there for about a century. In 1764, the exercises were limited entirely on account of an outbreak of smallpox. The longest lapse of the tradition came from 1775 to 1782, when the Revolutionary War sent the College packing to Concord, and there were no Commencements...
Frontier Town. Brazil-born son of a British missionary, Dr. Jim settled in Anapolis, he says, "because it just couldn't go any place but forward." It was a junction point for mule trains then, had "only two simple streets and a dozen houses." Fanstone was the first to practice surgery in the region; until then, appendicitis was known as "knotted bowels" and you "either got well or died by yourself." He brought in the first X-ray machine, the first elevator; his six-story hospital was the first skyscraper...
Though N.A.M. has many "forward-looking and enlightened individuals" in it, the organization's basic objectives "have not altered appreciably since the turn of the century." The objectives, according to Cleveland, have been to 1) discourage organized labor; 2) minimize the taxes on industry and managerial compensation; 3) oppose Government regulation of industry; 4) encourage public aid to industry (if it does not conflict with the first three objectives...
Entering Wedge. In Little Rock, Ark., when the winning number in a lottery was announced at an International Brotherhood of Magicians' meeting, six members stepped forward to claim the prize...
...vote, the trustees had approved a resolution by Board Member (and Brigadier General) Carlton S. Dargusch, 47, wartime deputy director of Selective Service. General Dargusch had heard "widespread" rumors of Communism on the campus and thought that now was the time for teachers to "come forward and be counted." The Cleveland Press denounced the project as "hysterical libeling of a whole faculty . . . [The oath] won't reach the liars. It will infuriate honest...