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Dean Watson will act today on a formal report by officers of the Liberal Union accusing Wellington A. Newcomb '46 of ripping down anti-UMT posters from House bulletin boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poster-Stealer Awaits Dean Watson's Action | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

Twenty-two fraternities form an oligarchy among an aristocracy, embracing one seventh of a total University population of approximately 7,000. Around them is now coalescing an incipient campus revolution. After a quarter of a century of laissez-faire administration, John L. Newcomb, president for a quarter of a century, relinquished his chair this week to Colgate Darden, former governor of the state and chancellor of William and Mary. Darden is an outspoken advocate of limiting the fraternities, which currently enjoy free flowing liquor and a similar interpretation of parietal rules. There are no bars in Charlottesville, so that liquor...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Old Virginia Nurtures Gentry Before Scholars Jefferson's Child Turns Out Wealthy, Wild, and Wooly Grads | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

Source Material. In Glendale, Calif., a thief ransacked the public relations offices of Newcomb-Swital & Associates; only missing item: a book, The Art of Stealing Literary Material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...rector, handsome, white-haired Big Ed will be kind of chairman of the board of the university, while President John Lloyd Newcomb, 64, continues to shape educational policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rector | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Navy admitted last week that six more U.S. ships had been hit off Okinawa. Five of them were destroyers, whose casualties totaled 464 officers and men: the Twiggs* and the William D. Porter had been sunk; the Ingraham, Newcomb and Leutze had been damaged. The sixth was the Liberty ship Josiah Smiling. All were hit by Kamikaze (Divine Wind) suicide planes except the Twiggs, which may have been struck by an aerial torpedo. Three British carriers and one destroyer (total casualties: 104) were also added to the list of Kamikaze victims last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: How Effective Is 2%? | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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