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Died. Sir Harold Beresford Butler, 67, a founder of the League of Nations' I.L.O. (International Labour Organization), who served as its director (1932-38), then as warden of Oxford's Nuffield College (r939-43), finally as Director General of the British Information Services in America during the war years; of acute pancreatitis; in Reading, England...
...awarded Boston's richest Episcopal parish-squat, medieval-looking Trinity Church in Copley Square. From the pulpit once filled by the great Phillips Brooks, he began to crowd Trinity with Harvard undergraduates as well as Back Bay Brahmins. Sherrill's preaching, says Trinity's former senior warden, Alexander Whiteside, is not spellbinding, but "it's pretty damned good. He always gives you something to take home . . . He's the most sensible and sane man I have ever known. When the Russian crisis began to look serious last year, I said to myself: 'There...
...chief characters, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt and First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden are both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
...Both Warden and Prewitt have love affairs in the course of the book, Prewitt with a respectable where and Warden with the wife of his captain. With some cynicism but convincing logie, Jones has them both flee their women when the relationships get too much like marriage...
...Winthrop's Stan Greene dumped in a last-second field goal to squeeze by Lowell, 32 to 31. In the third close game yesterday, Dunster made up a 28 to 17 half-time deficit to top Dudley, 51 to 50. Commuter captain Bob Hoffman scored 26 points while Dave Warden made 18 for the Funsters. The Bellboy 'B' quintet revenged the 'A' team's defeat by trimming Winthrop...