Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert L. Mason, Jr. '58 of Kirkland House and Wellesley, died Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital. Mason, a scholarship holder, was critically injured in an automobile crash September 17 at Charles Street Circle in the West...
...about through now, but somebody mentioned Yale. Yale, it was suggested, has a truly exceptional group of freshmen, including Tom Carroll, holder of the national high school half-mile record...
...track fans in the stands at Turku, Finland stirred unhappily at the announcement: both California's Don Bowden, first American miler to crack four minutes (3:58.7), and New Jersey's Tom Courtney, world record holder in the half-mile (1:46.8), were passing up the 1,500-meter event. The crowd had come out to see the Americans and Scandinavians push each other to a new record on the fast, hard-packed track where Australia's John Landy set the mile record of 3:58 in 1954. Fidgeting, the fans sat back to watch the Scandinavians...
Shake a Fugue. Farmingdale's Band Director Marshall Brown, 36, is the writer of more than 200 pop songs (Seven Lonely Days, Banjo's Back in Town), a former trombone and bass player and the holder of a graduate degree in music from Columbia. Hired to teach instrumental music in Farmingdale, he persuaded the high school five years ago to let him weed out the best players from the concert band and train them as a jazz group. "I felt," he says, "that the standard band repertory was too limited and that we were neglecting the most important...
Yale's Economist Edgar Furniss, 67, for 20 years holder of the delicate and demanding position of provost of the university. A sort of buffer zone between the faculty and the corporation, Furniss' office in the Hall of Graduate Studies was the bright hope for any professor with a new idea, a sympathetic court of appeals for any with a problem. No major change has taken place at Yale without first getting the provost's consent, and probably no university official has been so open to new projects. Once a professor suggested that the university publish...