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...with a Mission. Few men ever approached aviation with more devotion to that job. Fred Rentschler thinks, talks, breathes and dreams engines. Like an engine himself, his tall (6 ft. 2), lithe-muscled figure is as straight as a master rod, his face, which looks younger than his 63 years, as emotionless as a cylinder head. Like an engine, he carries a normal workload easily and can turn on extra power when needed. A shy man, he seems to shrink from human contact, uses memos to notify his top men of raises. Even United Aircraft's President...
Superb goal-tending by Williams' All New England goalie Rod Stark limited the Yardling lacrosse team to four goals as the Ephmen crushed the freshmen, 7 to 4, in a penalty-ridden game on the New Playing Field Saturday...
...Blight of Day. Bierce, who defined birth as "the first and direst of all disasters," was born in an Ohio log cabin in 1842, the tenth of 13 children. His godly parents never spared the birch rod, but young Ambrose was notably full of the devil nonetheless. Once, when a camp meeting was in full swing, he and a brother took an old white horse, wrapped it in straw, set that afire, and sent the blazing animal galloping into the midst of the hallelujah-shouting revivalists...
...respectable neighborhood, contributes to charity, hobnobs with cafe society, is a friend to politicians, sends his children to summer camp and the big kids to college. He allows himself a Cadillac (usually registered in his wife's name) and a home in Miami. He never, never carries a rod. He keeps all his transactions in cash and explains his low-class friends blandly. "Well-charactered people; you just meet them automatically," says New Jersey's Willie Moretti...
Even when the varsity got shots at Tiger goalie Rod Cole--and it did get off many shots from outside--there was never a Crimson lineman in position to put in the rebounds...