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Against B.U., the Jumbos held down the score for one period, then fell apart; that may well be the way the game goes tonight. The team's second highest scorer, by the way, is first line wing Jerry Mahoney, twin brother of the Crimson's third line stalwart, Frank Mahoney...
Individual Style. All in all, says Fuess, his 40 years were a golden age of headmasters. There was witty, debonair Lewis Perry of Exeter, hulking N. Horton Batchelder, "a grand old stalwart, who built Loomis School into a distinguished institution," and Frank L. Boyden, who, "with his love for horses and antiques, his Yankee shrewdness, his aversion for public speaking, his passion for telephoning and automobiling, his unaffected simplicity combined with benevolent despotism," built Deerfield Academy (enrollment: 470) out of a tiny local school with only 14 students...
...Legion's key demand was for the firing of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and a general housecleaning of the State Department. "New and stalwart leaders we must have," said the resolution, "men of strong character and undeniable integrity whom the whole world will recognize as the emancipators of Communistic enslaved peoples . . . Our patience is exhausted . . . We accept nothing less...
Cheng-lock Tan, 69, is Britain's best Chinese friend in Malaya (he was knighted last year for services to the empire). A stalwart antiCommunist, whom the Reds once tried to assassinate, Tan founded the Malayan-Chinese Association in 1949 to provide Malaya's Chinese with a spiritual alternative to Marxism. At first, the association stuck to practical philanthropy: it forked out $650,000 to help resettle Chinese squatters moved out of bandit-infested jungles. But Tan was not satisfied. He threatened to resign unless the association backed his political program, and he got his way. Henceforth...
...offensive trio is probably the most experienced group on the team with John Taylor, who captained an undefeated JV squad at Andover in his sophomore year; Tom Whedon, and Exeter stalwart; and Jim Dorsey, who played for Gilman in Baltimore, a school noted as a lacrosse power in the country. Dorsey is Pickett's best stick handler and looked very promising in yesterday's scrimmage with the varsity...