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Backing up Burwell come Joe McLoughlin, Bob Burns, Mal MacKenzie, Bob Jay, Kay Rogers, John Sopka, Paul Cook, and Joe Scott. Yale's hopes rest on Bill Bird, Mal Main, and Henry Mann, while Princeton's strength lies in Ed Burrows and Dave Little, son of the Master of Adams House...
...bend on Florida's wide, meandering, moss-fringed St. Johns River, where once only loglike alligators drowsed, a big bird alighted last week. It carried the Navy's crinkle-eyed Air Chief Jack Tow ers. Startled alligators gave the spot a wide berth. Less than a twelvemonth before, the bend had been a National Guard camp in typical northern Florida terrain -flat, sandy, scraggly with pine. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, it was a $15,000,000 naval air base, combed, brushed and parted with runways, hang ars, shops and barracks. The airborne Navy visitors looked...
...banal choros and dances which were played by gourd-rattling Romeo Silva and his orchestra, familiar to many a visitor to the New York World's Fair. It liked better still a tall, dark soprano, Elsie Houston, who in a green dress looked and sounded like some jungle bird...
What the eagle is to the U. S., the quetzal is to Guatemala. The quetzal (rhymes with pretzel) is a rare, lovely bird with bright green plumage, blood-red breast, fuzzy topknot, yard-long tail feathers. Quetzal is also the name of the Guatemalan money unit, and the bird's graven image appears on the national seal, coins, stamps. The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health. Only priests and nobles could wear quetzal plumes in their headdress...
...industry to his widow, Alice E. (Woodward) Wilhelm. Last week, as the sorrow and confusion in the company subsided, she was elected chairman of Peter Cooper Corp.'s board. Chosen president was William J. Gunnell, Buffalo accountant and recently executive vice president. An outdoors man, he has made bird collections for Buffalo's Museum of Natural Sciences. To newsmen looking for a new glue king, Accountant Gunnell offered a silence worthy of his predecessor. The chairman, it was explained, did not like the idea of anyone's seeming to fill her husband's shoes...