Word: harvardmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secrets of the Reef (Butterfield & Wolf) is a submarine gem, dredged from the waters of the Bahamas and Florida's Marineland oceanarium and polished by three bright young Harvardmen (Lloyd Ritter, Robert Young and Murray Lerner). The product of a three-year effort and a paltry $150,000, it is one of the best films thus far of the brave new underworld of the skindiver, where the actors are all baresark and the dialogue is in bubbles...
...only Harvardmen competing for Olympic positions were Bob Rittenburg, captain of the 1955 Crimson track squad, and Pete Harpel, the track team's leading hammer-thrower this year. Rittenburg won his heat in the 440 meter hurdles but could not quite make it in the finals as three of his opponents broke the existing world record. Harpel finished well out of the running in the hammer...
Showman Arthur Fiedler led his group of symphony musicians in their old standby's--semi-classical arrangements heavy on strings and brasses. But for the returning Harvardmen, their wives, and children, G. Wright Briggs '31 was the sensation...
Some 5000 Harvardmen and their families began pouring into Cambridge yesterday afternoon for the traditional five-day program of alumni celebrations and ceremonies which will be climaxed by Thursday's Commencement...
Since the organizers of the reunion are all Harvardmen, they have figured out everything. If rain should kill "jamboree" proceedings, Kismet will be given in the afternoon instead of the evening, as is planned for fair weather. "That way, how can we lose?" asks Pliny Jewell, Jr., optimistic reunion committee chairman...