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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Subs & Surrenders. As a Torch planner, "General Lem" joined the secret party, led by General Mark Clark, that slipped into North Africa by submarine in 1942, to find French commanders who would defy Vichy and support the forth coming invasion.* Like Clark (who lost his pants while scurrying back to the waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which...
Keith D. Lowe '60 and Ernest E. Pell '59 last night won the coveted Boylston Prizes for Elocution. James C. Marlas '59, Mark J. Mirsky '61, and John S. Wolfson '60 each received second prizes in the contest, one of the University's oldest and most distinguished...
...squad was loaded with men who would be standouts anywhere. Captain Bob Kaufmann's time of 57.8 in the opening leg of the medley against Yale set a University and national collegiate freshman record in the 100-yard backstroke. Later in the same meet, he set another University mark with a 2:13.3 in the 200-yard backstroke...
...Mark Twain once remarked that he especially enjoyed meeting in books men whom he had "already met on the river." Portrait painting, at its best, gives that kind of enjoyment also. The insights into character that it affords both confirm and expand the experience of people. Lately this enjoyment has been far to seek, since modern artists are more concerned with expressing their own personalities than exploring other people's. Yet a few brilliant portraitists remain-among them ebullient Boris Chaliapin. whose survey of people and places he has known opened at Manhattan's Hirschl & Adler Galleries last...
...would dare to express a liking for Norman Vincent Peale or California burgundy. But nowadays the TV box is no longer square. An intellectual can laughingly confess to TV addiction, and the lower-brow the program the better. Even so eminent a figure as Columbia University's Professor Mark Van Doren has been a convert ever since his son Charles triumphed on Twenty...