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...burly, red-headed, pink-faced mass of a man from Marlboro, Mass, is probably the only professional athlete in the heterogenious group that makes up the psychology specialists in McKinlock Hall. A former Holy Cross star, he played his first season of professional ball last year with Alexis Thompson's Philadelphia Eagles...
Died. Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper, 76, old-line Democrat who became the first New Deal Secretary of Commerce (1933-38); of leukemia; in Washington. Son of a Marlboro, S.C. Confederate officer, he began his political career with a congressional clerkship during Cleveland's second administration. As Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, he was the first to fail at Prohibition enforcement. As Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce, the oldtime Methodist dry became a butt of brain-trusters, but did a good job of placating big business with speeches as tasty as the famous watermelons he served...
Other executive titles were given to Richard G. Axt of Upper Marlboro, Md. and Kirkland House, and Robert A. Fisher of Birmingham, Mich, and Lowell House, who are to be secretary and treasurer respectively, while the rest of the ten-man committee was assigned to other duties in preparing for the 1946 dance...
Even with their ranks thus reduced, the workers found that they were too much for the Marlboro farmer. Taking their agricultural duties seriously, they had aroused themselves at dawn to arrive at the farm by 8 o'clock--only to find that their employer was still enjoying his holiday leisure...
...John Rice orchards of Marlboro will supply the apples and necessary tools. If the trip is a success another may be held soon...