Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edward Owen Cerf, 41, assistant managing editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of TIME; by his own hand (gunshot); in Manhattan. Chicago-born, Oregon-reared Ed Cerf joined TIME as a writer after graduation from Princeton in 1940, the next year went into the Marine Corps, fought at Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, by war's end had risen to the rank of major...
...brother of the original Henry; of a heart attack; in Detroit. William resembled brother Henry in appearance only. When Henry left for the city, William stayed on the farm. "I have no use for cars except as something to ride in," said William, and when his tractor sales agency went bankrupt in the Depression, he was as good as his word, asked no help from his multimillionaire brother and got none...
...fascinating biography by Joseph T. Durkin, himself a Jesuit and professor of American history at Georgetown University. Tom Sherman, born in 1856, was brought up in St. Louis and Washington amid his father's legend, but his Catholic mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman, probably had the greater influence. Tom went to Yale, studied law at St. Louis' Washington University, then abruptly informed his father that he was about to enter the Jesuit novitiate. "He was the keystone of my Arch," General Sherman mourned bitterly, "and his going away lets down the whole structure with a crash." Tom explained...
McClennen won the Darcey, Trophy, symbolic of the University title, in his first year of singles competition. He rowed in a freshman eight last year before injuring his back just before the Yale meet. He went against the Bulldogs in spite of the injury, but early this spring he again incurred back trouble and had to drop crew...
...Crimson team of Fred Vinton and Bill Wood in the final. Yale nearly had to default this one, too, as Freiberg, viewing the singles from atop the M.I.T. tennis shack, had difficulty getting down from his perch for the doubles. He finally made it, though, and the match went...