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...scatters bewilderingly and as a whole never returns. No reunion or Yale game ever draws more than a small percentage back. But for the last fifty such groups to depart, there has been one permanent tie to the Square: The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, which has passed through a half-dozen editorships and half a century with the one aim of carrying Harvard to as many of her sons as care to remember...
That's the story of four College students and a Yale man, who this summer climbed 11,000 feet into the Canadian Coast range to map an area never before seen by human eyes. All are members of the Harvard and Yale Mountaineering Clubs, which ran a half-dozen expeditions during the vacation...
...faculty consent until he had on hand satisfactory proof of AYD's autonomy. Final documents were not exchanged until last May--and not until the status of all political groups and all club memberships total had been eagle-eyed by Student Council--and AYD became the last of a half-dozen new groups in Radcliffe Yard...
...also remembers ex-convicts, gives a chance to many a deserving man; he has added several hundred ex-convicts to B. & B.'s payroll of 5,200. He also remembers other prison hands: one of his top wartime employees (chief of maintenance for B. & B.'s half-dozen plants) was an ex-warden who bossed him around at Leavenworth...
Notwithstanding his man-of-distinction look, Joe Alsop is a journalist, and a good one. His political acumen (the result of well-applied apprentice years) and his writing (a clear cut above the loose or labored journalese of many colleagues) have earned him a reputation as one of the half-dozen best commentators...