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...Alan J. Tinker '47 of Roxbury died in his sleep Monday morning at his room in Adams House. Cause of death was given as bronchial pneumonia...
...Tinker, one of the first veterans to return to Harvard, was 22, and had served five months in the Navy. He was graduated from Mission High School, Roxbury, and transferred to Harvard from Boston University in the fall of 1944. He was concentrating in History and Government...
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...misuse the expression "tinker's dam" by spelling it "tinker's damn" [TIME, Jan. 7]? ... The latter expression means nothing. A tinker's dam was really a dam made of clay, which the traveling tinkers used to surround a spot on a pan or kettle to keep the solder from spreading or running until it cooled, while [the utensil was] being repaired. As soon as the solder cooled, the dam was thrown away as useless and worthless. Hence . . . "tinker's dam" to denote something having no value...
...liked formal education even less than Henry, spent only a year at Princeton. After his draft board rejected him (he is virtually blind in one eye), he managed to enlist anyway, ended up as a lieutenant. .Billy, 20, was in the Navy's V-5 program, likes to tinker with motors more than the other boys, plans to attend Yale before he joins up with his brothers. By that time, Young Henry's gamble may be won-or lost. These days Young Henry is quite certain that it will be won, that the troubled labor relations that harried...