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...W L T Pct. Pennsylvania 3 0 0 1.000 Yale 3 0 0 1.000 Cornell 1 1 0 .500 Harvard 1 1 0 .500 Princeton 1 1 0 .500 Columbia 1 3 0 .250 Dartmouth 0 1 1 .000 Brown...
Bermuda's Criminal Investigation Department was at a total loss. Some people talked of a "moon-mad" killer, since all four attacks took place shortly before new moon. In desperation, Colonial Secretary John W. Sykes rushed a call to the FBI asking for help. Under U.S. laws the FBI could not help without evidence that a U.S. citizen was involved. Sykes turned to Britain's famed Scotland Yard, which sent two of its top men last week...
...Edgar Finley Shannon Jr., 41, as fourth* president of the 140-year-old University of Virginia (enrollment: 4,468). He succeeds retiring Colgate W. Darden Jr., who nearly doubled the school's physical plant in twelve years. English Professor Shannon was a whiz-bang scholar and crack half-miler at Washington and Lee (1949). A Navy gunnery officer in World War II, he survived the sinking of the cruiser Quincy, won eleven Pacific Theater battle stars and the Bronze Star. He specialized in Tennyson at Harvard, earned his doctorate as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford's Merton College...
...week early at a dinner given by 27 prominent lawyers at the Sidney Hill Country Club in Newton. Samuel B. Horovitz '20, who presided at the dinenr Saturday, read the four congratulatory letters and praised Pound as "the greatest legal scholar of our time." The Justices who wrote were W. O. Douglas, Tom Clark, Haold H. Burton, and Stanley Reed...
...Walter W. Naumburg '89, retired banker and music patron, died Saturday in New York City at the age of 91. Naumburg financed the University chair now held by Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, who will retire this June...