Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week plowed the 9,424-ton freighter Katoomba, bound for Marseilles with a distinguished prisoner. Sixty-six-year-old Abd el-Krim, who had brilliantly led Berbers and Arabs against Spaniards and Frenchmen in the Riff country of Morocco a generation ago, was exchanging the 21-year exile of Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, for the milder exile of a villa on the French Riviera. Or so the French Government expected. Instead, when the Katoomba reached Port Said, Abd el-Krim, now portly and grey of beard, walked ashore and placed himself and his retinue of 40 under...
Deciding where duty lay might not be easy for Abd el-Krim. The Katoomba had carried from Reunion the coffined bones of El-Krim's mother, who died in 1938. He had promised that she would one day be buried in Morocco. But when the Riff leader walked ashore, the coffin had stayed aboard. This week Katoomba and coffin were on their way to France. It seemed likely that the angry French would hold the dead mother as a hostage for the too lively...
Never before in the history of the college has the student band played an official part in the exercises, so this week will be a radical departure, featuring as it does performances Class Day night, at the Yale baseball game, and in the parade of Reunion classes before the diamond encounter...
Still, although much of the pre-war hoopla will be missing, there will be tradition to spare. H. S. Payson Rowe, Vice-President of the New England Division of the Associated Harvard Clubs and Reunion Chairman, has had charge of class committees which have been working for several years planning today's 25th Reunion...
Monday's itinerary included an afternoon tea and address by President Conant, and an evening at the Pops. Children of returning alumni have been enjoying their own reunion program, which has included special excursions around the University, a trip to the Charlestown Navy Yard, and much splashing about in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool...