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When a class leaves Cambridge after its four-year tenure, it scatters bewilderingly and as a whole never returns. No reunion or Yale game ever draws more than a small percentage back. But for the last fifty such groups to depart, there has been one permanent tie to the Square: The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, which has passed through a half-dozen editorships and half a century with the one aim of carrying Harvard to as many of her sons as care to remember...
...quite F.F.V., but Biographer Freeman's maternal ancestors were. Young Douglas was a 17-year-old honor student at Richmond College when his father, who had been a private in Lee's army (and later a general in the Confederate veterans organization), took him to a Confederate reunion. The sight of the Confederacy's brave armless and legless old men stirred young Douglas; he decided: "If someone doesn't write the story of these men, it will be lost forever, and I'm go'n' to do it." Being Virginia born, Douglas Freeman...
...Disciples of Christ met in San Francisco and heard news of steady progress toward reunion with the Northern Baptists. When the merger is completed,, the united church's 3,200,000 members will be the fourth largest Protestant church...
...occasion was an Air Force Association reunion at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. For most of the evening the TV camera dwelt fondly on a long succession of performing celebrities: Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Lena Home. But as Cinemactors Margaret O'Brien and Walter Pidgeon were announced, the camera gazed tactfully elsewhere, in deference to the stars' M-G-M contracts, which forbid their appearance...
...ancient Sioux held an oldtimers' reunion at South Dakota's Custer State Park. They were the last of the Indian band which had massacred Lieut. Colonel George A. Custer and 250 troopers of the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Now the buffalo were gone and the white man had taken their Black Hills. Said one irascible old brave: "I wish my people were strong enough to get them back...