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...Heir Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, 44, owner of a 650-acre plantation on St. John, small (12,200 acres), unspoiled (only one hotel) gem of the Virgin Islands, offered his land as a site for the first U.S. National Park in the Caribbean. Holder of options on about half the island, Conservationist Rockefeller hoped to pick them up, eventually hand over about two-thirds of St. John...
...name of the holder of the new chair will be announced within a month, Levine said. "I have an idea who the man will be, and I'd endorse him in a minute; but his name is not ready for publication...
Students must submit their ticket application for the Yale game to the H.A.A. by 5 p.m. today. Each student participation card entities its holder to one free ticket. Extra tickets cost $5. Simourian alternating at tailback...
Portents. Pat was valedictorian of his Reno high-school class (1897) and holder of the school record for the 100-yd. dash (10.2), but had to withdraw from the University of Nevada to take over the family ranch when his father suffered a crippling injury. Soon Pat was carrying Blackstone in his saddlebags while riding out to herd sheep. In 1905 he was admitted to the practice of law; within ten years he was chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, and in 1920 he achieved national attention as counsel for Mary Pickford in her divorce action against Owen Moore...
Died. Ken Buck, 22, star end (1951-53) at the College of the Pacific, 1953 co-holder (with Georgia's John Carson, Stanford's Sam Morley) of intercollegiate pass-catching honors, first draft choice of the professional-football New York Giants; of cancer (which he learned he had in March, thought he could lick in time to play football this fall); in Paso Robles, Calif...