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...MacDonald Sidelined...
...varsity baseball team split its pair of games with a favored Yale squad; Ken Rossano and Andy Ward pitched the Crimson to a 4-2 win at New Haven, but the Elis came back to win, 6 to 5, in Cambridge. After the game, catcher George L. MacDonald, Jr. '55 of Eliot House and Marblehead, was elected captain for next spring...
...MacDonald's classmate, right fielder Donald H. Butters '55 of Natick, received the Wingate Memorial Cup as the best all around player on the squad. And the Wendell Bat went to William J. Cleary, Jr. '56 of Winthrop House and Cambridge; Cleary gained the annual prize for having the highest agregate point total for runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, sacrifices, and safe arrivals at first...
...along the Iowa River. Starting with the presidency of Walter A. Jessup (1916-34), S.U.I, gradually embarked on a whole new tack. Under Ed ward Mabie, the aramatic art department and University Theater started turning out such alumni as Playwright Tennessee Williams, Producer Richard (The Big Clock) Maibaum, Actor Macdonald Carey and Stage Designer Lemuel (Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate) Ayers. Onto the prairie, meanwhile, came poets, novelists and painters (among them: Iowa-born Grant Wood). The university began a representative collection of modern American canvases, and its auditoriums began to echo with new music. Largely through the influence of Psychologist...
...Macdonald, who also has written as Kenneth Millar, is one of the best of the hard-boiled school now practicing. A student of the work of a fellow Californian, Old Master Raymond Chandler, he has learned his lessons well, even to the similes: "His face was like a worn saddle ridden by circumstance.'' He has the same intelligent regard for settings: "It was a good residential suburb, where people turned their backs on small beginnings and looked to larger futures." With Dashiell Hammett no longer producing and Raymond Chandler showing signs of weariness, Macdonald is just...