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...never intended to be a dean; he wanted to be a poet. As a student at the University of Michigan, Christian Gauss (rhymes with mouse) was a prominent athlete and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, dressed in velveteen jacket and flowing tie á la Gilbert's Bunthorne. He worked his way through college in three years, could recite the Inferno from start to finish in Italian by the time he graduated. He sailed off to Paris, to the Latin Quarter and versifying. Michigan lured him back with the offer of a teaching job, made more attractive by the fact that...
...last September to confer with Chiang Kai-shek at a tragically low point in China's fortunes. The Chungking Government, after seven years of war, was teetering on the brink of economic and military disaster. With the recall to Washington of General Joe Stilwell and Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss, Diplomat Hurley took over the thankless, monumental job of watching out for the best interests of both the U.S. and Ally China. It was not Pat's first hard chore...
...President announced that the resignation of his Ambassador to China, Clarence E. Gauss, had no connection with Stilwell's recall...
...Fitzpatrick, 79, famed Princeton track coach (1910-32); after a long illness; in Princeton, N.J. When he was just beginning his coaching career, at Yale, he gave later-famed coach Amos Alonzo Stagg a primer course in the art of the fast breakaway; later, at Michigan, he coached Christian Gauss, who became Princeton's dean...
Last week Clarence Gauss, called home by the State Department, returned to Washington, conferred briefly with the President, was mum to reporters. Then he left for a vacation in California. Even Mr. Gauss would be surprised if he went to Chungking as Ambassador again...