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Using an all-court press that coach Floyd Wilson said "seemed to upset the Harvard players and caused a lot of mistakes," the Brandeis five led in scoring for almost all the game, topping the Crimson 32 to 26 at halftime. Gary Goldberg and Ron Kemper with 17 points apiece were high men for the Judges; Merle McClung with 14 and Denny Lynch with 12 led the Crimson scoring...
Congratulations on your fine cover article on Andover's John M. Kemper [Oct. 26]. The character and contribution of American independent schools today is a story that has long needed telling...
Hoofing & History. When it came time for West Point, lazy Student Kemper crammed hard, came out sixth in a field of some 100 candidates for presidential appointment. At the Point, he was a good leader-manager of varsity lacrosse, superintendent of the post Sunday school, captain of his regiment and class president. He did well in history, a fact that counted later. An avid dancer, he hoofed in the annual Hundredth Night Show, loved to go out shagging with Peg at nearby Vassar...
...other girl was Sylvia Pratt, warm-spirited daughter of a noted Boston doctor, and Kemper married her soon after he graduated in 1935-132nd in a class of 275. A "sand-rat lieutenant," he was soon running a cram school for getting enlisted men into West Point, did so well that in 1939 the Point yanked him out of the infantry to teach history. He dutifully earned a Columbia master's degree in 1942 while itching to go to war. In its wisdom, the Army put him in G-2 with the prickly job of organizing U.S. historians...
...task for Talleyrand, the job involved Kemper in global negotiations with staff officers to get clearance to see generals to allow soldiers to speak to scholars-if they could or would. Result: twelve sound monographs produced by a 500-man team under command of a major general who, in the words of Historian Baxter, "treasured John Kemper as one would a jewel...