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...world. A Quaker, born in Glen Cove, N.Y., he went to Swarthmore where he played three years of varsity football, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and played on and coached the American 1924 Olympic champion Rugby team. He returned to teach English at Swarthmore, became Master of Pierson College at Yale, a professor of history and chairman of admissions, and finally at 34, president of richly endowed Rochester. Married, he has three children. Husky, handsome and emphatic, he became the lion of ladies' discussion groups, an inveterate speaker at Commencement Days...
Another result: Trans World Airlines, which long had battled the merger, finally gave up, mollified by CAB permission to fly to London and Frankfurt. Said T.W.A. Chairman Warren Lee Pierson: "The court has spoken. T.W.A. intends to say it with service...
...Bellboy defense engineered an expected victory over winless Pierson by demolishing the Eli attack, and by scoring eight of the 15 points. End Bob Esch broke through to block a punt on the Pierson 25 yard line, the ball bouncing into the Pierson end zone for a safety. In the third quarter guard Tony Ripley picked up a kick blocked by tackle Al Sweetser and scored from the Pierson 15. The Bellboy backfield scored when Brooks Wilder galloped 55 yards off tackle for a touchdown on the third play of the game...
...Bellboys, after a disappointing season, face Pierson without the services of quarterback Bob Woodruff, a fine passer and clever ball handler, who broke his rib in Monday's Kirkland game. Lowell needn't mourn too much, however, because the Pierson Slaves' only claim to fame is five straight losses, and ten injuries in their first game
...Berkeley 5 0 0 Branford 4 1 1 Saybrook 3 1 1 Davenport 2 2 2 Calhoun 2 2 1 Trumbull 2 2 0 Timothy Dwight 0 5 1 Pierson...