Word: reunions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Freddie presented himself with a couple of friends at the club's dressing room door, he was sternly rebuffed. "You can't come in," snarled an attendant. Freddie was nonplussed. While he and Denis held their reunion at the foot of the steps of the pavilion entrance, George Mann, M.C.C. captain, protested vigorously to the South Africans. Club Secretary Walter Mars was adamant. "I have no objection to professional boxers as a class," he said later, "but I had only to take one look at Mills and his friends to realize they are not the type...
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...