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Filling out the Crimson's backfield will be fullback Tom Fritz, with Tom Zierk, a former schoolboy track star, at wingback. The quarterback position will alternate between Cliff Erickson and Ashton Hallett...
Outstanding as reserves are ends Don Hoffman and tall (six feet four inches) Bob Hoffsis. Fullback Tom Fritz, a former all-star player from Minnesota, has looked well defensively during the past weeks of practice and may also play against Dartmouth...
Executive Order. The Ohio-born or ganist and his organ arrived at West Point simultaneously in 1911. The instrument was a three-manual affair that cost $11,500. It was a fine organ for its day, but before long, Fritz Mayer began to hanker for new tone colors and started a drive to get new stops. Families of old grads began to donate memorial stops-a double open diapason here, a contra bombard there, a tuba sonora, a tromba batalla or a vox angelica...
...When Fritz Mayer reached his retirement age two years ago, his magnificent instrument (current value: $350,000) was still incomplete: the highly complicated piston controls-for quick changing of the 757 stop keys-were not hooked up. Under the energetic leadership of Manhattan's Mrs. Courtney Campbell, veteran of Washington politics, Mayer's friends went to work, lobbied through Congress and right up to the White House. Result: President Truman's Executive Order 10,334, exempting Mayer from compulsory retirement "in the public interest . . . for an indefinite period." Organist Mayer went right on supervising the completion...
Through the winter of '46, when babies were wrapped in newspapers and thousands of Berliners froze to death, the Altmanns survived (though they would not admit it even to themselves) on the proceeds of Fritz's black-marketeering, on Frances Faviell's charity and on Ursula's sex appeal. Then Fritz fell afoul of the West Berlin police and fled to the Communists. Old Herr Altmann died, and shortly afterwards, Lilli collapsed while dancing. Though her mother would not believe it, frail little Lilli had had an abortion. She died murmuring "Vova," the nickname of some...