Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Staid Philadelphia was the scene of an unusually gay reunion last week, and the headquarters for it was an unlikely spot: the Charles P. Bailey Thoracic Clinic. But few celebrators anywhere could have had better cause to rejoice than the 306 graduates of heart surgery who traveled (at their own expense) from as far away as Canada and California, Puerto Rico and Venezuela to let the Bailey team of eight doctors check on their progress. All had been heart cripples a few years ago; now, with a few exceptions, they were well and proud to show...
...Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined in a nostalgic community sing, glared whenever any of his entourage of Cabinet ministers failed to bawl out the lyrics as heartily as he. His blood running hot, a trace of sweat on his brow, Sir Winston was moved almost to tears at the reunion's climax when the Harrow boys chorused a familiar version of the school song in his honor: "Nor less we praise in darker days/ The leader of our nation,/ And Churchill's name shall win acclaim/ From each new generation...
...latest "Stars and Stripes." The headline on the sports page said, "Harvard Coach Eyes First Win Over Elis." My Gawd, thought Vag, they're playing in New Haven tomorrow. Oh, well, have to grow up some day and who'd want to be the only duffer at the 25th reunion who had never missed a Yale game? Anyway, didn't Jordan Olivar say last week that it was just another football game. The mere thought of Olivar set Vag to cursing him for that asinine Yaeger stunt...
...Jacques Mandé Daguerre developed the professionally workable "daguerreotype." It was so successful that a French cartoon soon complained that half of mankind had become "daguerreocrazed," while the rest was "daguerreomazed."*Everything in sight was caught on the magic plates-Victor Hugo's hand, the moon, the 30th reunion of the Yale class of 1810, President John Quincy Adams (first U.S. President ever photographed). But already the revolt against realism had begun. A Swedish photographer named Oscar Rejlander invented the composite photograph, and started to turn out allegories. His most startling picture was produced from 30 separate negatives...
...shows it "suffered from one of two things: A general attack of gullibility so astonishing as to tax credulity; or a feeling of sentimental affection for faculty members who were at least former Communists so great as to approach the maudlin." A member of this year's twenty-fifth Reunion class, Fox also supports the "Free Enterprise Fund" of Kenneth D. Robertson Jr., '29, which is designed to force "socialistic" professors to bring their wives into open forums...