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After a short stint as a lumber shed, it housed the local fire engine, bought just after Harvard Hall burned to the ground. The Faculty voted, in 1779, "that Kendal be directed to see that the College Engine and Bucketts be immediately repaired and plac'd in Holden Chapel." Undergraduate Kendal set to work and organized the Engine Society "for exercising the Engine." And for over forty years, the Engine Society watched all major blazes, invariably doing more harm than good...
...seemingly tireless Chalmers was soon seeing 60 patients a day in his clinic and also doing a daily stint of surgery at the hospital in Prosser, 15 miles away. He started a medical program at Benton City's two schools, and somehow, between his office hours and his daily commuting, found time to make a good number of house calls. A soft-spoken but decisive man who had just finished five years of public-health work in Alaska, Chalmers made friends quickly. Said one businessman: "He's that rare type who worries more about his patients than about...
...Schine's basic training had been. Charges filled the air that Schine had goldbricked his way through his rookie days. Fellow draftees were quoted as saying that Recruit Schine got a pass every weekend (and left the post spectacularly in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac), skipped all but one stint at guard duty, goofed off on target practice and kept hinting darkly that he was really only hanging around to check morale. Snooping on his own, Columnist Drew Pearson had reported that Schine's old junketeering gumshoe pal, McCarthy Aide Roy Cohn, called the commandant often to inquire about...
...regular season is taxing enough: more than 100 programs in eight months. What really bothers Van Beinum, however, is playing festival concerts. "I don't like it," he says. "I play all year. Why have a special festival to play the same thing?" Van Beinum's short stint with the Philadelphia is giving him a useful chance "to sniff the air, feel around," for he will be bringing the 100-man Concertgebouw Orchestra to the U.S. next fall for a 42-concert tour. Van Beinum is eager to get started, and hopes that his men will learn...
...fighter pilot, Nelson, 37, served his apprenticeship on Broadway as a playwright (The Wind Is Ninety) and as an actor and stage manager in a six-year stint with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. He thinks the theater and television are on divergent courses. TV, he argues, has a different pace than the stage and infinitely more mobility: "I use three cameras on each show and, in effect, have three prosceniums." TV actors become puppets of the director, since "an actor never knows when a camera might...