Word: reunioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas City reunion with his old World War I buddies of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, Harry S. Truman, in his best give-'em-hell style, frankly took a bow for warding off World War III. "I've been charged with murder and about everything in the book because it was necessary to stop aggression in Korea," declared he. "Still, if I had carried out the recommendations of many, there would have been the most terrible slaughter in the history of the world. I'm taking credit for preventing...
...tidy office in Appleton, Wis. one autumn day, a lean, brown-haired man sat down at his desk to face an irksome task. Nathan Marsh Pusey was writing his biography for the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard, and it was with much of the agony that H. M. Pulham Esq. went through ("a good deal like something on a tombstone . . . never did like writing . . .") that he dutifully recorded his life. He noted that he had three chil dren, was president of Appleton's Lawrence College (enrollment: 800), that "liberal education is my chief concern...
Forrester A. Clark '29 has been named Chief Marshal for the 25th reunion of the Class of 1929 this spring. His selection was announced Monday by John Cowles '20, president of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...latest paintings: a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, copied from an 1863 photograph. Early Christmas morning, the President, with his wife and mother-in-law, left the gaily decked White House, drove through the silent, deserted streets of Washington, and flew off to Georgia for a family reunion. At Fort Benning they stopped briefly for a light lunch and inspection of their grandchildren's tree, while Major John Eisenhower observed the Army's tradition that an officer eats Christmas dinner with his troops. Then, with all the family aboard, they flew off again on the last...
June: The Reunion Class of 1929 will hear classmates John Fox '29 and John K. Fairbank '29 debate in New Lecture Hall, and decide not to withhold the class gift after all. President Pusey will get through the degree-awarding exercises without missing a Dean. The dues list will come down from the Dunster House bulletin board. Tom Lehrer adds a 13 ditty to his list of publicly singable songs; and numbers 106 to 186 to his "small party" selections...