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Several of us spent last Saturday afternoon in a typically Harvard manner. We went sculling on the Charles until the hands and backs became too sore. Sunday was spent on the water by a couple of other men. As part of the Harvard Outing Club, this group went canoeing on the Sudbury River with some husky gals from Simmons. A fine sunburn was acquired...
...Station. The girl was Kathleen Harriman, attractive, dark-haired, 25-year-old daughter of U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman. The men were foreign correspondents. Together they boarded a four-car special train-warm, well lighted, well stocked-which they owed to Kathy. Originally their Russian hosts had planned the outing in automobiles, with each man taking his own food for three days, but they had rolled out the special when Miss Harriman asked to come along. The party played cards, ate with their official hosts in the cheery dining car, slept in soft berths as the wagons-lits swayed leisurely...
...Strange Outing. One day in midtrial, Banker John Anderson, friend and confidant of Sir Harry's, took the reporters on an excursion to Hog Island to admire Shangri-La, the fabulous estate of Swedish tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren. U.S. and British black listings keep this nimble friend of Millionaires Hermann Goring, the Duke of Windsor, Sir Harry Oakes and many another in Mexico for the duration, but the reporters found 17 gardeners tirelessly pushing back the lush jungle growth, awaiting the end of the war and the master's return. One or two reporters wondered whether the excursion...
Other miscellaneous organizations which still carry on include the Glee Club, the Orchestra or Pierian Sodality, the Outing Club, and various language clubs and smaller groups. Positions as team managers are still available in many sports but few bring with them letters...
...Props. No Boy Scout outing, the expedition has the best of scientific experts and equipment. Two-way radios will keep it in touch with the world. To record and report are geographers, botanists, mining engineers, meteorologists, agriculturists, physicians, photographers, a news reporter. To combat pestilence, the doctors will take 70,000 pills, anesthetics, analgesics, insect and snakebite remedies, and parasite exterminators...