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Last week he "reluctantly" resigned from Hartford's (Episcopalian) Trinity College faculty. Then Trinity's best-known, most-respected professor, now 61, put the finger of blame on handsome young (35) Businessman-President George Keith Funston, one of his ex-students. Shepard charged Funston with refusing to grant him a year's leave for what he described as "acute mental fatigue." Said he: "I am left with these alternatives: to submit to a ruling [reflecting] lack of confidence in my veracity . . . OT to resign...
Well, Hardly Ever. In Camp Funston, Kans., chosen the "perfect replacement" by G.I.s was Sioux Indian Pvt. John Nevermissashot...
...aide to his father, who was military observer to Japan in 1905, he watched the Russo-Japanese War. At Mudken he saw the Japanese charge a Russian-held hill six times, joined them on the seventh and successful charge. In 1914 he was with Major General Frederick Funston at Veracruz. Disguised as a Mexican bum, he reconnoitered behind Mexican lines, found three locomotives for his gen eral. He remembers this escapade especially because of a young official of the Ger man Embassy who helped him : Franz von Papen...
Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr. learned baseball on San Francisco's windy Funston playground, baseball kindergarten of big-league players like Oscar Vitt, Alvin Crowder, Umpire Babe Pinelli. One day the playground coach, Edward Hennessey, found him peering through a knothole at the San Francisco Seals, introduced him to their president, Charlie Graham. The Seals tried young Di Maggio at shortstop but he showed a tendency to throw ball to the outfield instead of first base. That was in 1932. In 1933 Joe Di Maggie's older brother Vincent, Seals outfielder, hurt his shoulder, was released...
...Filipinos at that time, and hence offering no jobs in the Island Government to brown men, Manuel Quezon went into the bush for a while as a major on Aguinaldo's staff. It took two years, many tons of rifle ammunition and the caginess of General Frederick Funston to capture and subdue Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901. As early as 1903, his ex-aide, Quezon, was working hand-in-glove with the conquering Yanquis as prosecutor for Tabayas and Mindoro Provinces. He has been drawing a government paycheck ever since...