Word: owen
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...must first question the basic assumption--that the College is compoesd of two separate camps--animals and artists. "It has never seemed a useful distinction to me to divide the undergraduate body into athletes and non-athletes, as though these were discrete branches of the human species," David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, said recently. "Whether or not a man plays a varsity sport has little to do with his intellectual abilities and interests or his qualities as a social being...
...Died. Owen Bernard ("Bert") Brennan, 57, rough, tough-talking Teamster Union vice president since 1957, mentor and close friend of Jimmy Hoffa ("the greatest little bastard who ever put a pair of shoes on"); of cancer; in Detroit. A $15-a-week wagon driver who rose by his skill as a skull-cracking labor organizer, Brennan sported a lengthy arrest record (assault, bombing, antitrust violations), co-starred with Hoffa in close-mouthed appearances before the Senate labor-rackets committee...
...paid advertisement in which over seventy scholars from the Boston area urged a re-evaluation of the Government's Cuban policy. The petition, constructed as an open letter to President Kennedy, was signed by Edmund Wilson, Lewis Mumford, Lillian Hellman, Harry Levin, Norbert Wiener, Reuben Brower, Albert Guerard, David Owen, Morton White and Eric Bentley, among others. It called for an attempt to "detach the Castro regime from the Communist bloc by working for a diplomatic detente and a resumption of trade relations...
...Owen deLong '61 and Dain A. Trafton '61 have been awarded Danforth Graduate Fellowships for prospective college teachers...
Crimson sailors wound up only six points behind winning Princeton, but could manage only a fourth place finish in a field of 11 in a see-saw version of M.I.T.'s Owen Trophy Regatta held on the Charles River Basin last weekend...