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WILLIAMSBURG, Va.--The official brochure describes the College of William and Mary as a "small, state University of unusual quality." The brochure also calls it the second-oldest college in the nation, but according to the William and Mary News, one of two campus weeklies at the self-proclaimed Harvard of the South, that distinction belongs to the folks up in Cambridge...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.-Although the Harvard football team can't win at home-it is 0-3-1 this season in friendly Soldiers Field-the gridders did celebrate Homecoming in Providence last weekend, shattering Brown's wineglasses...
DIED. Robert E. Dixon, 75, retired rear admiral who as a Navy pilot in World War II radioed the famous message, "Scratch one flattop," that signaled the sinking of the first Japanese carrier by American warplanes; of cancer; in Virginia Beach, Va. In May 1942 Dixon commanded dive-bomber squadron V52 when 93 American planes attacked the light carrier Shoho during the Battle of the Coral...
Cummings maintains his deadly stock at two large but unobtrusive warehouses, in Alexandria, Va., and Manchester, England. Visiting the Manchester branch, TIME'S Kevin Dowling noted an elaborate system of files on the desk of a secretary: a folder for every country in the world, explained Cynthia Wixey, including one for Vatican City. Was there, ah, much demand from the Pope? "Mr. Cummings is very thorough," she answered. "And he's an optimist. Maybe one day they'll need new halberds for the Swiss Guards...
...newly completed 52-unit condominium at 260 West Broadway in Manhattan's Tribeca district, they will find not just sinks, tubs and electrical outlets, but builder-installed computer terminals. The inconspicuous machines, which look like small television sets with a keyboard, are hooked up to a McLean, Va., firm that styles itself an "information utility." Its daunting name: the Source...