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...course, there is one thing about managing which should interest almost anyone. It is full of surprises. Right now, rumor has it that the varsity baseball team might play exhibitions in Japan during the summer of 1957. Assistant manager Newton Hyslop '57, next year's manager is already arranging for the purchase of kimonos for the entire squad...
Newton E. Hyslop '57 of Winthrop House and South Duxbury, Mass., has won the sophomore competition for assistant manager of the varsity baseball squad, and will automatically become the varsity manager in his senior year...
KENNETH C. HYSLOP, 36, Northern Baptist; reported missing in action on Nov. 4, 1950. He was given the Bronze Star four months before, when he stayed with wounded men who could not be evacuated, until he was seriously wounded himself...
...Hyslop does not judge insects by their works; he loves them for themselves. With downright affection, he recalls attractive insects he has known. There is the strong-jawed "short-circuit beetle," for instance, that gnaws into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep...
...Both men and insects," says Hyslop, "have a right to'live on the earth. But we slap the insect down-put DDT on him. The average man thinks of insects as a pest, that we'd be better off without them. We wouldn't; we'd be extinct. When people say to me, 'What use is an insect?' I answer, 'What...