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...exams came. Some freshmen stayed around to see the Olympic track tryouts in the Stadium, where five world records were broken, and to watch the baseball team and crew loose to Yale, but most left for home when their exams were over. And when he walked through Johnston Gate the confident man from '27 looked superciliously at the new freshman crop scurrying around...
...three years, Brian Johnston was a model British Broadcasting Corp. announcer, specializing in cricket and theater commentary. Then, in 1948, he started a show called Let's Go Somewhere and, microphone in hand, carried his thrilled listeners through a wall of barrels on a motorcycle going 40 m.p.h. or swung in an aerial ballet 90 feet above the ground. He thrilled his audience even more by letting himself be locked overnight in Madame Tussaud's waxwork Chamber of Horrors and describing his surroundings with an authentic quaver in his voice. Said a fan: "The wonderful attraction of Johnston...
Though his stunts have included breakneck rides in fire engines, racing cars and tanks, Johnston's narrowest escape came last spring when he placed a small advertisement in the London Evening News inviting "young ladies seeking adventure'' to meet him in lower Regent Street. At the appointed hour, Johnston was swamped by 1,000 adventure-minded females, who blocked traffic in Piccadilly Circus. He finally had to be rescued by police...
Last week, after being picked up from a dinghy in the English Channel by a helicopter, Johnston suddenly announced that he was through with stunting and would go back to cricket. "Frankly, old man," he told a reporter, "I hate danger...
Died. Frances Benjamin Johnston, 88, onetime news photographer who had an inside track to the White House because of her friendship with Presidents Harrison, McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt; in New Orleans. With a boxlike camera given to her by George Eastman in 1887, she snapped such shots as McKinley on the eve of his assassination and Admiral Dewey after Manila...