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...Music. Between studies he took a flyer at salesmanship (encyclopedias), earned enough to finance a cross-country trip by bus. In 1952 he enlisted in the Air Force, which decided that it wanted him at the keyboard of a piano, not at the controls of a plane. At Sampson Air Force Base near Rochester, N.Y. (Major General Richard Lindsay commanding), he set out to compose a huge musical "panorama" celebrating the 50th anniversary of powered flight. Composer de Gastyne's librettist: General Lindsay's daughter Raylyn, to whom he is now married...
...Crimson has been awarded the Sampson Cup for winning the New England League this season, a title it gained by downing Yale, 2 to 1, in overtime in the last game of the year...
...Duroc sows that were nursing their first litters in the orchard lot. To the hog troughs he took the shortest route, leading through the family cemetery behind the house. As the wire gate clicked shut behind him, Joe passed by the chest-high tombstone of his great-grandfather, Samuel Sampson Carver (1847-1938), symbol of a farm era that, although gone, still presses its influence on Joe Moore and all his contemporaries...
...Arthur Sampson, one of New England's outstanding football authorities, considers Meigs superior to Chesnauskas. Sampson, a Boston Herald writer, said, "I've seen both Meigs and Chesnauskas play for two years. Meigs has exceptional ability and he also has a terrific enthusiasm for the game which most players do not have. Not only does he carry out his own assignment, but he is always helping out the other fellow. While Chesnauskas does his own job he is not as important to his team as Meigs is. Meigs would have no trouble playing for any college team...
Crimson line coach Ted Schmitt agreed with Sampson that Meigs has the ability to play professionally, "though I hope he does not." Schmitt, considers Meigs the best guard he has ever coached...