Word: yales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland's pudgy, power-brained Merrill Kenneth Wolf (I.Q. 182) it seemed high time people stopped regarding him as "something of a freak." It was true that he had played Liszt on the piano at 22 months, written a symphony at eight, received his A.B. from Yale at 14 to become New Haven's youngest grad ever (TIME, Oct. 29, 1945). Since then he had spent three years in earnest study with great Pianist Artur Schnabel. Now, at 18, Kenneth wanted to be judged, he said, "solely by the quality of my music...
...Yale yesterday suspended three students who used mountaineering tactics to scale the face of Memorial Hall late Wednesday night, but were trapped by police spotlights before they could whitewash huge Y's on the roof of the bell tower...
According to their own story, the three Yale men arrived in Cambridge at 11 p.m. Wednesday night and at 12:30 began climbing the north wall of Memorial Hall, across the street from New Lecture Hall...
Police questioned them until 3:30 p.m. and told them "to get back to New Haven tonight." Telephone calls between the Yale deane and Arthur R. Hordon, Jr. '39, assistant dean of the College, settled their fate. The three were given notice of their suspension over the weekend...
Moses, who was returning from the Yale game, has owned a war surplus North American AT-6 trainer for a year and a half. He took off at Bridgeport at 4:45 p.m. yesterday and was due at Logan Airport at 5:40 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration officials reported...