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Officers & Ladies. "I never would have resigned had I known Korea was coming," says Kemper. "I loved the Army with a passion." Well he might, being descended from eleven straight Army generations going back to the Pequot Indian Wars. Kemper was born at Wyoming's Fort D. A. Russell, followed his officer-father from post to post, attending eight public schools from Texas to the Philippines...
...Comedie Animale: La Fontaine as Egoist;" Walter E. Arnold Jr. '58, second prize of $375 for "The Future of the Classical Tradition in Philosophy; Jared M. Diamond '58, third prize of $100 for "Atomic Sieves and Giant Algae;" and Charles A. Shively '59, honorable mention for "The Pequot...
...Taking time out from his racing cars, Millionaire Sportsman Briggs Cunningham, flying the burgee of the Pequot Yacht Club on his trim sloop Spindrift, won the National Atlantic Class sailing championship at the Sea Cliff (L.I.) Yacht Club. Second: Cunningham's clubmate Hoyt Perry. Third: Novelist John (The Watt) Hersey...
...Danvers, Mass., who quit his foreman's job at Pequot Mills shortly before the Pequot production was moved south, switched to a position with CBS-Hytron's electronics plant. At year's end Dooley was making 25% more money there than he made after three years in his old textile...
...year ago Pequot's directors reluctantly decided to sell some of the books. They asked Manhattan's Parke-Bernet auction galleries for an appraisal. The expert who came to look got an eyeful. There were papers signed by England's Queen Elizabeth I and Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII; a complete set of autographs of America's Founding Fathers (estimated value: $50,000), including the rarest of all, Georgia's Button Gwinnett; a priceless law journal kept by Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull from 1715 to 1747; the full minutes of the town...