Word: yales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desk Work at Night. Arkansan Quarles studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Yale ('16) and Columbia, once played guitar in the band of Bazooka Man Bob Burns, a Van Buren fellow townsman. Quarles spent 34 years with Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Western Electric Co., helped develop World War II's radar. Eventually, as president of Western Electric's subsidiary
...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 to the family: "People...
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...
...Bowditch swept the singles field without losing a set, and Donald Dell's alarm clock didn't go off, as the varsity tennis team put on a tremendous effort and dethroned favored Yale in the New England Intercollegiate tournament at M.I.T. this weekend...
...Crimson, fresh from a good night's sleep, will be able to utilize the experience it has acquired throughout the spring in compiling its own 5-3 record. Judging from last week's Yale game, the three quarters' passing, and running has tightened enough to produce one of the most potent backfields in the league, while the forwards, always strong and aggresive in the lineouts, have become adept at heeling the ball to the backs. If the Crimson can avoid injuries during the contest, it could provide some extremely tough opposition for the Nomads...