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...Died. Jacob Homer, 96, last survivor of General George A. Custer's historic 7th Regiment, which was massacred at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876; of pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak. A New Yorker who jo:ned the Army to see the West, he survived the battle because he was not there-there weren't enough horses to go around, and he had to stay behind when Custer made his last stand...
...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide-books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshman likes to quote from a parody of the series called "Rollo Visits Cambridge" in which Rollo asks Uncle George--"What is a Dean?" and his sage relative replies: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman seated at 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his service." Then Dean Leighton sometimes adds: "laying aside my solitaire for a moment...
...Weatherman Gromyko, whose head pops out when storms impend, just as Jacob Malik sometimes emerges to indicate clearing skies, might thunder against the Japanese treaty but he could not prevent it. The State Department had drafted a tough set of procedural rules which forbid amendments, limit each delegation to one hour's formal comment, rule out debate on points of order. But these rules must be adopted formally by the conference itself, which may give Gromyko a chance to get in his propaganda licks first. His audience will be vast: the treaty sessions in San Francisco's Opera...
...boys along Jacob's Beach had never thought much of Joey Maxim as a light heavyweight champion. For 19 months he had refused to risk his title, though he had ventured once into the heavyweight class and taken a tremendous 15-round belting from then-Champion Ezzard Charles. He might be able to box, but he was never a puncher. The boys thought a lot more of Irish Bob Murphy, a redheaded, left-handed brawler who had scored eight knockouts in ten bouts this year. As a 5-to-12 fight-time favorite, Murphy would undoubtedly cut the hapless...
...Died. Jacob J. Golomb, 58, Latvian-born immigrant who started in business with $5 and a sewing machine, built up one of the nation's largest sports equipment enterprises (Everlast Sporting Goods Co.), supplied free boxing gloves and punching bags to scores of boys clubs, summer camps and schools; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...