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...Premier Malan he fights. "Not a single self-respecting white man" would join Torch, a Nationalist minister once prophesied. Last week Torch claimed two of South Africa's most distinguished soldiers. One was General George Edwin Brink, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Croix de Guerre. The other was General James Thorn Durrant, who was eased out this year as director general of the air force. General Brink, who commanded South Africa's 1st Division in North Africa, could not stomach what had happened to his country's armed forces. "Soldiers who were disloyal . . . get preference . . ."he declared last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Loyal Renegades | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...percentage of students who use direct tutoring is small. The Bureau conducts this phase of its services in a quiet, efficient manner, and has capably handled, what was once a very disturbing thorn in the side of University Hall...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Exiled Tutoring Schools Once Fought College For Control of Educating Students, but Lost | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Jackson (Thorn Mtn.)--6-20, 3 inches granular, partly cloudy. Good both trails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.E. Ski Conditions | 1/19/1952 | See Source »

...William Barry Wood '32, Phi Beta Kappa, All-American football star, and Student Council president while in the College, came back to Boston today to assume the role of physician-in-chief protem of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He replaces Dr. George W. Thorn, Hersey Professor of Medicine, a former instructor of his at Johns Hopllins University Medical School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barry Wood Assumes Brigham Hospital Job | 1/16/1952 | See Source »

Nestling all the way, the varsity basketball team, with four sophomores in its opening thorn in the Crimson's side, sank the winning shot as the buzzer sounded, ending the overtime and crushing the home fans' hopes for the varsity's first Eastern intercollegiate Basketball League victory...

Author: By Jere Bron-kahn, | Title: Quintet Falls to Dartmouth In Last Second of Overtime | 1/16/1952 | See Source »

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