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DIED. Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, 92, British wizard of aircraft design who invented the "bouncing bombs" used to destroy German dams along the Ruhr, a World War II exploit celebrated in a book and the film The Dam Busters; in Leatherhead, England. Sir Barnes' career began with his World War I work on a British counterpart to the German zeppelin, included his development of the first swing-wing jet aircraft and hollow aerofoil design, and ended in 1971 with his efforts to improve upon the supersonic Concorde, a machine he considered rather primitive...
Died. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, 85, pioneer archaeologist, author, lecturer, star of TV shows like The Grandeur That Was Rome, and, as the Manchester Guardian once sniffed, "Secretary to the British Academy when he's not on television"; in Leatherhead, England. Wheeler supervised excavations in the Indus Valley of India and Pakistan and over a wide area of Roman Britain. He believed in King Arthur, and in southwestern England his diggers unearthed bits of pottery and knives they thought came from Camelot...
Most of the Yale men these days are getting pretty envious of the football players down there, if the evidence presented by the Yale News is any criterion. Here is a letter sent to "Louis Leatherhead, football ace," after the Elis' recent game with Navy...
...extravagant Cokes begins to buy up all the toys and ginger-bread at the fair. He has his purse cut by Edgworth while Nightingale creates a diversion by ballad singing, and Justice Overdo, suspected of the theft, is given into custody. The Puritanical Busy then tries to seize Leatherhead's toys on the ground that they are "idols" which must be "torn down," and is arrested for his pains...
Induction, C. B. Wetherell '08John Littlewit, T. Eaton '08Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, J. C. Bills, Jr., '09Winwife, F. Izard '08Tom Quarlous, O. L. M. H. Lyding '09Bartholomew Cokes, F. A. Wilmot '10Humphrey Waspe, H. R. Shipherd '08Adam Overdo, C. B. Wetherell '08Lanthorn Leatherhead, J. A. Eccles '10Ezekiel Edgworth, L. R. Martineau, Jr., '09Nightingale, R. M. Middlemass '09Mooncalf, C. W. Burton '08Dan Jordan Knockem, A. W. Sampson '09Val Cutting, G. A. McKay '08Trouble-All, R. H. Smith '10Haggise, C. W. Burton '08Bristle, F. S. Howe '08Filcher, C. E. Hale '10Sharkwell, J. W. Baker '08Northern, C. E. Hale '10Puppy...