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When George Packer Berry steps down as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the end of this academic year, he will have completed sixteen years of a memorable Harvard tenure. James Bryant Conant called his 1949 appointment of Berry "the best job ever did on the administrative side while president of Harvard." And last year, President Pusey said: Rarely, in all Harvard's history has a department of the University contributed so much to advance the causes it serves as has the Harvard Medical School during its years under Dr. Berry...
...Sixteen years later, he is a busy man, with a gracious manner, tremendous enthusiasm for Medical School projects, a love for explaining his ideas, and very little time. He considers the "pleasantest feature" of all those years to be "my colleagues, treatment of me as a colleague...
Surgeon Walter Lawrence Jr. made the transplant anyway. To the doctors' astonishment, there was no rejection process. Ten weeks after surgery, the 36-year-old man went back to work as a telephone operator. Sixteen months have now elapsed and he reports that he never felt better...
...Sunday, the sixteen low scorers from the day before will compete for the match play championship, with the final round coming on Monday afternoon. A possible favorite for the individual crown is Yale's Dan Hogan, who won the title two years ago. After a bad season last year. Hogan is back in form. He stopped McGuinn 4-3 in Wednesday's match...
...Avenue in the abnormal (for Washington) 60 degree weather, the stately pearl gray Lincoln Continental limousine, dappled sunlight glinting from its vinyl roof, preceded by a 50-girl corps of the fairest drum-majorettes in a city renowned for them (having produced eight national winners since 1955), sandwiched between sixteen marching bands (especially flown in for the occasion from Bancouver) playing the works of John Sousa and Edward Elgar while live television cameras broadcast the parade across the nation and beamed it to Europe via Telstar...