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...playing carpet bowls in the state parlor with one of his four children, or singing with a group of Whiffenpoofs about the fire ("I'm an honorary member"). And on his way to his office in Woodbridge Hall, he would still stop now & then to level his Leica, snap a camera shot of a student, a building or a professor. But once in his office, seated at his 18th Century slant-top desk, Whitney Griswold proved he knows how to govern...
...that failed to finish was Nathaniel L. Harris, Jr. '52. He said he found the Math easy, but the English was "no snap." He claimed he "was working all the time," but after a while be "get fed up with" the word problems...
Jabara, propeller ace (6½ enemy planes) in World War II, first jumped three MIGs at 35,000 feet. "I picked out the last man and bored straight in," he said. "I fired two bursts which ripped up the fuselage and left wing. The MIG burst into flame and snap-rolled twice. At about 10,000 feet the pilot bailed out. Just as he jumped, the MIG disintegrated." Then Jabara climbed back to 20,000 and got No. 6. (This week Ace Jabara was relieved of combat flying, sent to a Japanese air base as an instructor in jet-fighting...
...young mother, Princess Elizabeth was away from home too much, could quiet down for a spell. After a two-week visit in Rome with husband Prince Philip, she landed back at London airport where little Prince Charles was waiting with a welcome-home kiss, and photographers were waiting to snap it. Foiled by Elizabeth, who gave her son a hearty hug in the privacy of the plane, they had to settle for a more dignified picture of royalty. At his first press conference in Paris, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson began: "I have come to talk things over with General...
...Times found plenty of facts & figures to support the theory that a good athlete is likely to have the edge when it comes to smoothing the way with scholarships, cash benefits and snap courses. Items...