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Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson baseball nine faces a highly-touted Quonset Naval Air Station aggregation tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at Quonset Point, R. I., in its second tilt of the summer season, and its second encounter of 1944 with Lt. Pete Appleton's team...
...first time his jeep skirted an isolated pocket of German resistance on the western side of the Cherbourg peninsula. Later he visited a Ninth Air Force field and jumped at the chance to go across the line, riding pickaback in a specially converted PSI Mustang, with dashing Major General "Pete" Quesada as pilot...
Yale students last week solemnly bade Godspeed to a professor, poet, zoologist, historian, philosopher and the world's foremost authority on spiders. This jack-of-all-sciences was Alexander Ivanovich ("Pete") Petrunkevitch, who after 34 indefatigable years as a Yale teacher was retiring...
...Pete's Teas," two-hour Monday-afternoon discussions of human frailty, have been a Yale institution. So was their chief attraction, white-bristled Professor Petrunkevitch. Generations of Yalemen have seen his gaunt figure trotting briskly about the campus to 13 hours of classes a day. At 68, 'Pete was just getting his second wind. No more classes-but he planned to continue his faculty-student gatherings as "Pete's Teas-Emeritus," and he announced his intention of writing a three-volume summary of what he has learned about spiders. On that subject Dr. Petrunkevitch has a great...
...tarantulas, never been bitten. With evangelical fervor he points out that the spider is immensely useful to man; it carries no diseases, destroys many insects that do. The strong, fine strands of spider webs have been very helpful in the wartime manufacture of optical instruments and range finders. Says Pete Petrunkevitch, unmindful of Miss Muffet: "Only in civilized cities like New York and New Haven are the ladies afraid of spiders. In tropical lands the people value their presence...