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Although his undignified escape embarrassed the Vatican, Isidore had good reason for disappearing. Sent by Pope Nicholas V to show Western support for the Eastern Empire and to consummate the reunion of the Latin and Greek churches that had been uneasily agreed upon at the Council of Florence 14 years earlier, Isidore said Mass in St. Sophia as the Turks were gathering to batter down the walls. But disputatious followers of the monk Gennadius boycotted the church. After the fall of the city, Mohammed rewarded Gennadius by appointing him the first Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek church under Islam...
...eighty day "cooling off period" over, The Wall Street Journal parodies The Lampoon, which never recovers. At a Pre-Reunion meeting, angry alumni hire the Harvard Band for a march on Leverett Towers. The group parades around the structures seven times, shouts "Veritas" causing the building to crumble into dust. Premier Khrushchev announces, "We will bury you on the 27th, and this time we mean it." Eisenhower announces a State Department reading period assignment of "What You Should Know About Communism" in preparation. At noon on the 27th, the sun stands still...
...clear a path through the delirious crowd of 250,000 that shook the vast square with endless roars of "Viva l'Italia! Viva Trieste Italiana!" Thus, after nine postwar years as a "free territory," the citizens of the Adriatic port city of Trieste deliriously greeted their reunion with Italy...
Today at the Stadium the Harvard University Band will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a gigantic musical reunion, a highlight of its happy, humorous, and impressive history. Many of the men who will play in the almost 400-piece reunion band are those who have been responsible for establishing the Band's unique position in the University community and its fame throughout the country. Although beset by war years, financial worries, rival school's cheering sections, and the Dean's Office, the group has always in its 40 years managed to entertain its audiences and have a good time doing...
Leroy Anderson '29 will conduct one of the largest musical units ever to play at Soldiers Field when the Band holds its 40th reunion on Dartmouth Weekend...