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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James D. Cameron, Jr. '46, chairman of last fall's drive which netted $23,000, outlined a report he has written suggesting possible means of improving the "Service Fund Drive." These include changing the name of the drive, running a campaign each term, and not permitting a contributor to distribute his gift to the charity he wishes...
...five days, nobody did anything. The San Francisco papers passed up the story, while Freddie (real name Robert Lawson Preston, 44) tried to bluster it through. "Some of it's true," Preston conceded airily, "and some...
Born. To Benjamin Welles, 32, elder son of ex-Diplomat Sumner Welles and New York Timesman in the London bureau, and Cynthia Monteith Welles, 31, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Serena. Weight...
...second decisive event came when he decided to invent, for use in short stories, a scientific method of crime detection based on the deduction-by-observation habits of Professor Bell. He sketched out a short novel called A Tangled Skein, involving a detective named Sherrinford Holmes and a narrator named Ormond Sacker. Finally, because it sounded better, he changed Sherrinford to Sherlock, and Ormond Sacker to the simpler name of Dr. John Watson. He changed the story's title to A Study in Scarlet. Publishers Ward, Locke & Co. bought it outright (for ?25) and published it in their Christmas...
Fisher said that this group had considered wrecking the NSA, packing the Student Council, infiltrating into the Liberal Union, smearing candidates as communists, and distributing birth control pamphlets under the name of prominent NSA officers...