1951
I saw the Harvard game in late October from a new perspective. Together with many classmates and wives, I sat immediately behind the south goal posts. All classes after 1948 (except for those with the good fortune to have reunions coming up in June) had seats in the end zone stands.
Charlie and Marilyn Breed were our gracious hosts both before and after the game. We also had a class meeting at the Breeds' that morning to discuss 25th Reunion plans. Anyone wishing to volunteer himself, or, for that matter, anyone else, for an assignment should write Class President Howard Phillips (Oppenheimer & Co., 1 New York Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004) or Reunion Chairman "Buck" (Wm. M.) Scott (408 McClenaghan Mill Rd., Wynnewood, Pa. 19096).
25 Years Ago: Dartmouth was in the forefront of the fight against racial and religious discrimination some four and a half years before the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and 25 years before the current Boston school busing fiasco. November 1, 1949 was the day of the famous poll on restrictive fraternity membership clauses. Eighty per cent of the student body voted 9-2 against the clauses. In Washington later in the month, the Dartmouth Interfraternity Council urged a National IFC meeting to take real steps to end discrimination.
Football: Red Smith did a "Satevepost" article on our football situation and Coach "Tuss" McLaughry, entitled "No Crying Towels at Dartmouth." A special extra of The Dartmouth reported "STUNNING UPSET WIN," 16-7, over unbeaten Cornell. Thanks to a steady stream of copy being run to the printer on Allen St., the extra was on the streets only 30 minutes after the game ended. The Indians ranked 14th in the following AP football poll. John Clayton was UP player of the week.
The week before Cornell, we swept Columbia, 35-14, with Rob Tyler back in action. In addition to those mentioned last month, "Ace" Mueller, Bob McCraney, Vin Marriott, BillRoberts, Pete Bogardus, "Mo" Monahan, EdLarigan, and Craig Murphy saw action. The week after Cornell, we lost to Princeton, 19-13, on a fourth quarter pass by Dick Kazmaier.
Our overall record was 6-2, tied with the Tigers "for fourth place in the mythical Ivy League." The Boston Gridiron Club named John Clayton outstanding college football player in New England, and Paul Staley was elected 1950 grid captain.
Soccer: 1951 dominated the team with "Tommy" Tompson, Bill Leshure, Art Judson, BobHopkins, Al and Cesar Estrada, Bob Mathys,Bob Dope, Dave Saxton and Jule Olney. The booters defeated a pre-Castro Cuba University of Havana team, 2-0.
Culture: Lewis Mumford was a Great Issues speaker. The Players did Robert Sherwood's Petrified Forest for Houseparties with TedLaskin writing an irreverent parody subtitled "How Stoned Can You Get (a morality play)" in the "D." The College Lecture Series included a speaker on solar heated houses! Robert Frost read his poetry in the Tower Room. The Original Don Cossack Chorus and Dancers (who defected to the U.S. in 1943) appeared in Webster Hall. The Players did Shakespeare's King Lear just before Christmas vacation, with Ira Chorebanian and Mike lovenko in the cast.
Prices: In anticipation of the Columbia game, the Hotel Empire, Broadway at 63rd, advertised rooms with private bath for $3.75. With Brown the Tailor's ad, you could get your pants pressed for 200 instead of the usual 250, a suit for 350 instead of 500. 44 Pal razor blades cost 980. Both the Co-op and Campion's offered special package deals on skis, bindings, and poles starting at $25. Thanksgiving dinner at the Hanover Inn was $3.25 complete for adults, including filet mignon as an entree choice and plum pudding with rum sauce, and coupe au marron among desserts. The Inn Coffee Shop advertised a special luncheon for 750, a special dinner for 850.
Transportation: White River Coach Lines had four trips daily to Albany (with a change at Rutland), $3.90 one way. Capital Airlines offered "Nighthawk Aircoach, low cost 4-engine service" New York to New Orleans "only 8 hrs. 32 min. (Fastest Rail Time: 29 hrs. 35 min.)" It cost $12.80 to fly from New York to Pittsburgh; $88, from Newark to California.
For Christmas vacation, the B&M ran its last roundtrip vacation special, leaving Norwich 1 p.m., arriving Chicago 9:15 the next morning. "Sleepers, coaches (reclining chairs, of course), dining car service for your convenience." The 12:05 to Boston and the 12:15 to New York were held to 12:25 for those with 11 o'clock classes. There were four other Boston, and five other New York, trains to choose from.
The "outside world": The worst airline dis- aster to date took 55 lives in Washington, D.C. Indonesia won its freedom from the Dutch. The Cl() was expelling "left wing" unions. Harvard's Russian Club changed its name to Slavic Society. Herbert Lehman defeated John Foster idles for one of New York's Senate seats. The coal strike still unsettled, the government went to court. John L. Lewis was fined $20,000; the UMW, $14,200,000. Alger Hiss went on trial for perjury in New York.
CURRENT NEWS: All I've got space for this month is the news on one of our Professiona! newshawks. Bob McCabe is now news editor of the International Herald-Tribune (jointly owned by the Washington Post, NewYork Times, and "Jock" Whitney, who owned the old New York Herald-Tribune). Bob joined the Paper in April, when Time, for which he worked for five years, mostly recently in Paris as a writer on the European edition, tried to send him back to New York.
Prior to Time, Bob spent 18 months as foreign editor of the Ford Foundation's Public Broadcast Lab, "a noble but failed experiment." Before that came five years as Hong Kong bureau chief for Newsweek. Bob had a book, Storm Over Asia, published in 1967 and has two more in the works, "going slow as hell." He has three children: Karl, 12; Alec, 10; and Molly, 7. Alec broke his leg while skiing with Bob in Switzerland last spring.
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