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Thomas R. Nunan, Jr. of Newton Center and Winthrop House was elected Permanent Class Secretary when approximately 350 members of the Class of '45 went to the polls yesterday and Monday. At the same time nine other men from the same Class were elected as members of the Permanent Class Committee. Tying for highest number of votes of the chosen committeemen were Dean M. Hennessey of Chicago and the Varsity Club and Sidney O. Smith of Gainesville, Georgia and Kirkland House...
...second successive year, John D. Eusden '44, of Dunster House and Newton, captain of the swimming team, has been awarded the Wyman Trophy, presented annually to the Harvard swimmer scoring the most points during the season in dual meet competition...
...Newton Booth Tarldngton, 73-year-old, nearly blind novelist, was worried about Indianapolis' stray dogs. In the good old days before gas rationing many a motorist stopped at the pound on the city's outskirts, for $4 rescued a pup from homelessness or death. Now there were few such rescuers. To the Indianapolis City Council, about to debate opening a dog shop in the center of town, Novelist Tarkington wrote a letter: ". . . Out of the myriads of creatures upon the earth only one, the dog . . . crossed the vast abyss that separates the species ... I find few things...
...Hopeful. There is no date to mark the moment when plans for the future rose against the tragic present. The mind's anniversaries are personal. Historians can set a date for Newton's discoveries, but not for the epoch that began when millions acknowledged their truth. Children who were ten when the Japanese shelled the barracks at Mukden are 22 now. Against a darker background than their parents ever knew, their first loves and their first jobs began; their play ended and their work and their fighting started...
Pete Brown and Frankie Newton were the heroes of the day, Brown working the hardest and longest, and playing better than ever before, Newton saving the concert at an awkward moment with superb showmanship. The finest music in the session came when they jammed together with three former members of Frankie's band, the Trottman brothers on piano and bass, and Billy Mason on drums. The outfit blended perfectly and the ensembles were terrific...