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Died. John S. Sumner, 94, for 35 years quixotic guardian of New York City's morals; of pneumonia; in Floral Park, N.Y. As executive secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice between 1915 and 1950, Sumner made smut chasing his lifework. He fought to have James Joyce's Ulysses banned, and helped send Mae West to jail for directing a 1926 play called...
...interesting aside to the appointments-not wholly unrelated to the emergence of the Bok administration-is Dean Dunlop's selection by President Pusey yesterday as Lamont University Professor succeeding Sumner Slichter and Edward S. Mason...
...JULIUS SUMNER MILLER...
...half ago, the little boy was timorous, overattached to his mother, and the victim of two badgering sisters. Now, say academy staffers, he is "quite a tiger." (A few days before socking his father, he had flailed away at a sister.) The transformation is typical of changes wrought by Sumner ("Mike") Burg, an unpretentious man whose lack of professional credentials has not kept him from winning the respect of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. Using his remarkable rapport with insecure children and adults, Mike builds their self-confidence by teaching them to use their bodies more effectively in individual and team sports...
...then Sumner Redstone cleared his throat, only too aware of the Paramount brass awaiting their introductions and the present Harvard administrators and his wife's eager friends certainly having the time of their dreary old Bostonian lives, and Sumner began his speech, only, to his horror, to meet with drunken laughter and then suddenly all he could see was some kid in a back row waving an empty bottle...