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...Sixteen years ago, a young (26), up & coming golf pro named Sam Snead defeated Old Pro Gene Sarazen in the first Goodall Round Robin golf tournament. Snead, a prodigious hitter, beat the old pro in a tight play-off for the title. Last week, on Long Island's Meadowbrook course, Snead, now an old pro himself, made certain that no young upstarts got within hailing distance...
Concerning the large number of veterans in the School, figures in the report show that nearly 200 of the 525 students who entered in September, 1950 were veterans. Sixteen percent of the remaining 325 left the Law School for the armed services before completion of their degree requirements...
...last weekend's Eastern Intercollegiate play, Yale topped team play with a combined score of 603, 14 strokes better than second place B.C. In addition, five of the sixteen qualifiers in individual play, were Elis. Murray Vernon, number one man, reached the finals but lost. Number two man for the Blue, Jerry Fehr, won the Easterns last year and in last year's match beat Ted Cooney, the Crimson's best...
Eight hundred students taking part in the hour-long parade and inspection ceremonies were reviewed by a special committee, consisting of three high ranking Army and Navy officers and several members of the Board of Overseers. Sixteen members of the Overseers' Visiting Committee to the Military, Naval, and Air Science Departments were also present...
Despite the complexities, the bells have been played. But people who had expected sounds akin to a melodious carillon were soon disappointed. Russian bells are not strictly carillons. They were invented by monks several centuries ago, and only sixteen different pieces of music have been written for them. The sounds are strangely dissonant and have been described as both "Savagely primitive" and "godawful." Since few players know the original music, they must resort to improvising. This is especially difficult since, according to the terms of the gift, the bells must be played in the Russian manner. When the monks rang...