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Members of the group elected Tuesday and Wednesday in heavy balloting include: Richard Matz Edelman of Brooklyn and Grays Hall; Archibald Holmes Fetherolf of Worcester and Thayer Hall; Gim Pon Fong of Newton; Edmond Joseph Gong of Miami, Florida, and Thayer Hall; Roger Browne Hunt of North Bennington, Vermont, and Stoughton Hall; Lansing Lamont of New York City and Stoughton Hall; John Gardner Morey II of Terre Haute, Indiana, and Mower Hall, and Allen Thompson of Matthews Hall and Larchmont...
Some said it sounded like "pon!" Some believed it was more like "pan!" Others claimed that "pitchi" or "patchi" or even "zuboo" best described the sound, while others were willing to swear it was a whispered "pussu" as dainty as the beat of a butterfly's wings. Whatever the sound, it was certain that it took a sharp ear to hear it. But sharp ears were bent to catch it: last week, as they had each summer for upwards of two centuries, Japan's perceptive poets and philosophers listened more carefully than ever for the soft explosion...
Signals Off. In Nanaimo, British Columbia, Pon Loy, 80, quivered slightly as the undertaker lifted his body into the casket, was rushed to a hospital...
Champion over the Varsity 4 1/2 mile course was Pon Tuttle '40, who ran the distance in 22 minutes, 29 seconds, leading John Frederickson of Boston University by 20 yards. Spectators were surprised to see Tuttle come in with one feet bare; he had lost his right shoe a mile back...
...finishes as the Freshman at the Newell Boat House. The Varsity course in all covers a bit over four miles. Last fall W. Sullivan of Holy Cross covered the course in 23.45. Last Friday Captain John W. Erhard '38 turned in the best time of the Handicap race--23.18. Pon Tuttle '40 Friday also under Sullivan's mark with 23.24. And Jaukko predicts that Brayton '39 and Bill Wright '38 will be right up there with these...