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After his name he put down a figure: "100." That was his recording of a mark no other airman had yet equaled: he had flown the Atlantic for the hundredth time. Before war's end other airmen might still equal the mark, but they would have to fly hard & fast to catch up with 49-year-old Robert Oliver Daniel Sullivan, who last week was still doing more ocean traveling than any other man. Successor to the late, great Ed Musick as Pan Am's No. 1 pilot, he had piled up his record on the Atlantic since...
Hymn, "Old Hundredth...
...concert opened with a Mozart Cantata and included selections from the Palestine Masses and the Cherubin: "Requiem in C Minor." The latter number was presented as a memorial for the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of its composer...
Last week, 124 years after it was founded, the University of Michigan celebrated its hundredth anniversary for the second time. Four years ago Michigan held its first centennial, commemorating its establishment at Ann Arbor. That celebration flopped when a zealous alumnus dug up an old State Supreme Court decision holding that the university's existence dated back to the 1817 founding of the "Catholepistemiad" (University of Universal Studies), a Detroit secondary school that held no college classes...
With one foul and a called strike against them, persistent university officials last week had another try. This time they picked the hundredth anniversary of the opening of first classes, adequately celebrated with historical speeches and a handful of honorary degrees...