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After dedicating a new campus at Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem, N.C. last fall, President Truman got a fan letter from a Wake Forest alumnus. "Men like you," ran the President's pleased and prompt reply, ". . . make it possible to carry on in this...
...plane swung low over Elizabeth, fighting for altitude. In a top-floor apartment at 656 Salem Avenue, Mrs. Wally Shulan heard the plane. "I think it's going to hit," she cried to her husband. Skimming low, the airliner lost flying speed, smashed into the roof of the apartment house, skidded across, spilling gas from its broken tanks, and dropped into a children's playground. Within seconds the 50-family apartment house was in flames...
...Walter Gifford, 66, now U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, former board chairman of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Born in Salem, Mass., he is a self-made man who began as a clerk, rose to the presidency of A.T.& T. by the time he was 40. Quiet and retiring, he is a veteran of wartime posts in government consulting agencies, served as the first U.S. relief administrator under President Herbert Hoover during the depression. A Republican, he was picked with State Department concurrence. Though by inclination he avoids entertaining, he has studiously cultivated British ministers...
Juniors--George Lewis Batchelder III, Beverly, Mass.; Jerome Howard Blitz, Brookline, Mass.; Howard Alan Cox, Pittsburg, Pa.; Thayer Fremont-Smith, Boston, Mass.; John James Jennings, Salem, Mass.; John Joseph McNamara, Jr., Boston, Mass.; George Martin Yazejian, Belmont, Mass...
...tolerance was not mutual. In 1636, in midwinter, he fled Salem under sentence of banishment by the Massachusetts Bay Colony...