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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still think that John Herman Randall Jr. gave one of the best descriptions of Paul Tillich's system-an enlarged naturalism which seeks to make room for the concerns of esthetics, religion...
John Herschel Glenn Jr., 37, Marine lieutenant colonel; 180 lbs, 5 ft. 10½ in., green eyes, red hair (thinning in front). Presbyterian (Sunday school teacher). Born: Cambridge. Ohio; attended Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio (1939-42), but quit to enter service in 1942. Glenn is the Astronauts' top-ranking, most experienced officer (more than 5,000 flight hours, 1,500 in jets), has seen the most combat (59 World War II fighter-bomber missions in the Pacific, 100 missions, three MIGs downed in Korea), carries the weightiest decorations (five Distinguished Flying Crosses, 19 Air Medals...
Walter Marty Schirra Jr., 36, Navy lieutenant commander, 185 lbs., 5 ft. 10 in., brown eyes, brown hair. Episcopalian. Born: Hackensack, N.J.; graduated U.S. Naval Academy, '45 (215th in a class of 1,045). Wally Schirra, son of a World War I ace, learned to fly a plane as a youngster ("It was in the family"), has logged 3,000 military flight hours (1,700 in jets). He flew 90 Korean combat missions (one MIG downed, one Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), served in peacetime as a Navy carrier flight instructor, as a test pilot helped develop...
...central pair of young lovers--"poor little rich girl" Polly (Alice Therese Burns) and rich little messenger boy Tony (Pare Lorentz, Jr.)--also left more than a little to be desired. Miss Burns, who joined the company just two weeks ago, was sweet but not sufficiently at ease, and her singing voice, while pretty, was sometimes lost in the accompaniment. Mr. Lorentz's voice suffered no such indignity, and was among the best on stage, but his acting was otherwise awkward...
Charles M. Stewart '60, of Eliot House and Denver, Col., was elected president of the Harvard Skiing Club last night at an election dinner in the Union. The Club also chose James H. Brested III '60, of Kirkland House and Kent, Conn., as vice-president, and William F. Neimi, Jr. '60, of Dunster House and Seattle, Wash., treasurer...