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Friday's stormy caucus evidently brought the split to a head. The sun was already shining over lake Mendota, literally if not figuratively, when the session reported out the nominations of Paul L. Wright '49, Houghteling, and William Tracy of Springfield college. Jaffa was not eligible for the office on Friday night because he was running for national office on for national office on Saturday morning...
...once-beaten crew won the Eastern Championship over nine rivals and thus boosted its chances of becoming the U.S. Olympic choice. Yale, ahead until the final few yards, was second. Harvard's big rival is now unbeaten Cornell. Cornell had kept a date with unbeaten Wisconsin on Lake Mendota, won by half a boat length...
Next day Lieut. Governor Oscar Rennebohm, 57, was sworn in as acting governor. A wealthy, self-made man who built a bankrupt drug store into a prosperous chain, he is a political neophyte. He owns a palatial, 14-room house overlooking Lake Mendota, during the summer spends most of his spare time on his 175-acre dairy farm. He is closely associated with the G.O.P. machine. Said Boss Coleman: "He will serve the state very well...
University of Wisconsin. An inland home of isolationism before Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin has since doubled its R.O.T.C., organized the first university ski troop, even staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...
Returns. In Kansas City, a tornado blew a $270 check from the desk of J. E. Wyatt. It was returned to him from Mendota, Mo., 150 miles away. In Charlestown, N.H., a mail clerk who lost a jackknife figured he might possibly have dropped it into one of 14 outgoing mail sacks. He wrote to 14 out-of-town postmasters, got back 16 knives...