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Ralph Washington Sockman moved from his one-room country schoolhouse to Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and the nickname of "Octopus" for his numerous activities. He courted Zellah Endly, violin-playing daughter of a Methodist minister, and married her in 1916. When at 27 he became pastor of what was then called the Madison Avenue Methodist...
...summer, reached the top of the charts, and has now sold more than 1,000,000 copies, bringing the Highwaymen cash-boxes full of unexpected gold. Most remarkably, however, the Highwaymen are actually college boys-all senior honor students at Connecticut's ivy-tinged Wesleyan University...
...much as $2,500 a night, the five boys spent their freshman, sophomore and junior years performing unofficially before preoccupied pool shooters in their fraternity-house basement. When one boy's father suggested that they contact talent agencies they auditioned for United Artists. As a result, the five Wesleyan boys will split more than $100,000 this year...
...last year's championship, and the pressure is on for the Crimson crew this year. Ford hopes skillful spinnaker work will make the difference in this year's competition. Also racing in this first heat will be boats from Babson, B.U., the Coast Guard Academy, Middlebury, Northeastern, and Wesleyan...
Victor L Butterfield, president, Wesleyan University LL.D...