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...pair of wire clippers, raced to the Wall. Placing a ladder against the barrier, one of the boys scrambled up, snipped the barbed wire on top of the concrete, and lowered the second ladder down the other side. Hardly had it hit the ground when the escapee sprang from his doorway 55 ft. away and clambered up and over the Wall two rungs at a time. So nonchalant were his rescuers that before leading him away to join his sister they first carefully retrieved the ladder from the Communist side. Said one of the rescuers, who in a few weeks...
...Were Dead." Wilson's eye from now on will be mostly upon the amazing steel mill that sprang like a jack rabbit from the East Texas piney woods. Built by the Government during World War II to produce pig iron. Lone Star had yet to pour any metal when V-J day arrived. Soon after the war, the unpromising one-furnace mill was sold for $7,500,000 to an optimistic group of Texas businessmen. To run it, they chose Germany, a onetime schoolteacher and salt packer who had grown wealthy as an oilfield wildcatter. Borrowing from the Reconstruction...
...feelings were pretty generally forgotten by 1934, and the football series sprang up again for keeps. Princeton won, incidentally, by 19 to 0. But if Princeton-Harvard bitterness had subsided, the Lampoon had not. Somewhat later in the Class of 1937's sophomore year, the 'Poon put out its notorious "Esquire" issue, whose contents led the University to shut down the Lampoon building for almost a month and pressure the publication's officers into an en masse resignation...
...section from which it sprang becomes U.S. Business. The editor of both is Robert Christopher, 38, whose competence in world business rests on two tours of Army duty in the Pacific as a Japanese-language officer, 2½ years in Rome as a TIME correspondent, and five years as a foreign news writer for TIME...
...James H. Frantz '63 was bitten by a squirrel that jumped at him from the path in front of Sever Hall. Less than two hours later, Mrs. William D. Sciurus, wife of an instructor in Chemistry, successfully fought off with her umbrella another squirrel that sprang at her from a tree in front of Memorial Church. Frantz has been started on Pasteur treatments in case the animal was rabid...