Word: princetonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does, the last editorial voice in the ivy league colleges will be stilled. The Princeton Bulletin, a miniature thrice-weekly sheet prepared by a secretary in the Dean's Office, has replaced the daily Princetonian. Yale's publicity office issues, with student assistance, a News Digest each week. The Harvard CRIMSON, realizing that rapid turnover and a younger student body discourages a mature and consistent editorial policy, publishes, still independently, the voice-less Service News each week. Dartmouth's position is similar to Harvard's, though the Log, successor to the Indian, is slanted more Navy-wise...
...Jersey. Between two political unknowns, the Senate race would probably go the way the state goes (polls showed the state leaning to Dewey). The candidates: Princetonian Republican H. Alexander Smith, 64, able lawyer; Elmer Wene (rhymes with bean), 55, wealthy egg man and Hague Democrat who has yet to speak up in six years in the House...
Without benefit of Hollywood, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), drawling Princetonian ('32), once one of the most familiar characters in the U.S., last week found his finest recognition-as a crack U.S. fighting man. In England, 34-year-old Brigadier General Edward J. Timberlake Jr., commander of a B-24 combat wing, announced the appointment of 36-year-old Lieut. Colonel James Stewart as his chief of staff. Ted Timberlake, one of the Air Forces' greatest tacticians and red tape cutters, picks men for ability, not for public prestige...
...from Wall Street. Jimmy Forrestal is a notable example of able businessman turned able public servant. Born a Dutchess County neighbor of Franklin Roosevelt, he went to Princeton, edited the Daily Princetonian, got his nose flattened in a friendly boxing match, was graduated in time to enlist in the Navy in World War I. He emerged a lieutenant...
Died. John Maudgridge Snowden Allison, 55, eloquently lecturing Yale historian (Thiers and the French Monarchy), Princetonian ('10); after a brief illness; in New Haven...