Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frederick Woltman, Pulltser Prise-winning reporter of the New York World-Telegram and Sun, this month made the first criticism of the Harvard Class of '27 because Frederick Vanderbilt Field is a permanent officer of the class. The holds its 25th reunion this June...
Starting point for the article is Field's position as permanent class treasurer. (The last report of the Class of 1927 reveals that Field ceased being active in class affairs shortly after 1937.) In Boston, Donald Harding, acting co-chairman of the reunion committees, said that Field "handles no funds...
...jarring note at the family reunion was supplied, as usual, by the Russians, who took advance counsel with no one. Swarthy, cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko led his 39-man crew off their two private Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan, without the customary protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family...
Some 8,600 delegates and observers met in Buffalo last week for the 44th annual meeting of the American (Northern) Baptist Convention. Like most U.S. Protestant denominations, the American Baptists (membership: 1,578,000) ranked the question of church reunion high on their agenda; they voted to meet next year in Chicago at the same time as the Disciples of Christ (membership: 1,716,000). Business meetings of the two conventions will be separate, but some spiritual and social activities will be carried out jointly. "I do not foresee any immediate merger," said the Baptists' secretary, Dr. Reuben...
After all, what more indication of the womb-like nature of college is needed than the behavior of an alumnus returning for a reunion? He tries to abandon for a week or so all his "responsibilities," to immerse himself in an ivied atmosphere where comfortable memories subsist in every cranny...