Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More than 1,000 strong, it yelled its way down Nassau Street, exploded a few more firecrackers, sent a task force to storm the Garden Theatre and broke up the show. By the time the mob reached Hulit's shoe-store, it had been joined by Tad D. Hammond, who is as prominent in his own way as the studious Joe Sugar...
...Freshman Hammond, 20, had been suspended in February for flying his Piper Super Cruiser without school authorization to a Mount Holyoke College dance. (After a bit of careless navigation, he overshot the dance and crashed in a New Hampshire cornfield.) More misadventures with an unauthorized car, including a trip to Florida, led to his expulsion. Only a few days before the riot, he had buzzed the campus in his plane and sprinkled it with empty beer cans...
...Hammond and William Wright Jr., another freshman, got into a scuffle with some proctors and town cops. Wright and one of the cops crashed through...
Girls & Fines. Split into small groups, the students burst in on another movie and disrupted the show. Some marched on the railroad station, shoved lustily at a car or two and managed to toot a train whistle before they moved on. Others made loud threats to spring Hammond and Wright, who had been locked up at Borough Hall. Toward midnight, the storm center of the riot swirled through town, blew over every garbage can in sight, then settled on Westminster Choir College a mile away...
While the town added up the damage and prepared its bill (even for the cost of garbage removal), Princeton undergraduates got a good spring cleaning. Hammond got a $200 fine and a two-month suspended jail sentence. Wright, despite his protested innocence, drew a $100 fine. The university suspended nine students, expelled one, threatened to call others to trial...