Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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International police and State Department officials are conducting a search for Arthur Clausen Pike '60, who was reported missing on January 15th. He is thought to be in the West Indies, where he planned to conduct a meteorological study...
...Hoehler, Assistant Dean of Freshmen, said that Pike returned from the vacation, but disappeared on January 10th. "He was in no academic trouble and seemed to be in good spirits," according to Dean Hoehler. "Pike was extraordinarily interested in meteorology, and there is no reason to believe that another factor caused his disappearance," he continued...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis Andrew Pick, 66, U.S. Army (ret.), onetime (1949-52) chief of Army Engineers, who rammed through (1943-45) the Army's tortuous, 478-mile Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Burma, later (1946) began construction of a dam network project (the Pick-Sloan plan) to tame the rambunctious Missouri River, directed (1949) "Operation Snowbound" to relieve storm-clogged Northern states, while head of Army Engineers built the Air Force base at Thule, Greenland; in Washington...
...Garden, with music by Manhattan's Meyer Kupferman, a Steinishly childlike spoof on royalty that was the success of the evening. ("Redolent, that's the word for the music," approved one Edinburgh matron. "It was the essence of nostalgia.") Next came Sweet Betsy from Pike, by Manhattan's Mark Bucci, a horsy mock-western. The bill closed with The Pot of Fat, by Massachusetts' Theodore Chanler, a Grimm parable about a cat and mouse who married and then found out about their incompatibilities. The crowd clapped the company to the rafters...
...Very Rev. James A. Pike, dean of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, onetime Roman Catholic (and editor of Modern Canterbury Pilgrims): "We are Catholic in that we hold entire 'the Faith once for all delivered to the Saints' in unbroken continuity, in faith and in order, with the early Church . . . In the case of almost every significant difference between us [and Roman Catholics], in faith or in practice, we are teaching it or doing it the earlier way . . . We are 'oldfashioned' Catholics...