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French ;$ HeFFE1.FI NGER Meeks SCHKOEDEK Shli.man Tichi DEATH look its toll of prominent personalities both at Yale and in public life. Among those whose passing made the headlines were these: Four prominent political leaders of foreign nations suc- cumbed. Fiery Russian diplomat Andrei Vishinsky suffered a heart attack. Panama ' s president Jose Remon fell before a barrage of machine gun bullets at a race track, and Brazil ' s chief executive Julio Vargas committed suicide. Retired Italian premier Alceides De Gasperi also died. On the American political scene, death claimed Vito Marcantonio, Laborite congressman; John W. Davis, one of the country ' s foremost constitutional lawyers and one- time Presidential candidate; and Paul V. McNutt, promi- nent New Deal administrator. The world of the arts lost author James ( Goodby, Mr. Chips I Hilton, veteran actor Lionel Barrymore, and artist Henri Matisse. Walter Remington, convicted Communist perjurer, met a violent end in prison, and the Dionne quintuplets became only four. Science lost Enrico Fermi, father of the A-Bomb, and Dr. Albert Einstein, probably the greatest modern scien- tist. The publishing field lost two of its pioneers, Joseph Pulitzer and Robert McCormick; and The Great Scorer came to claim Grantland Rice, beloved sportswriter. Meanwhile at Yale many felt keenly the passing of: Robert Dudley French, 66, Professor Emeritus of Eng- lish, authority on Yale traditions and history, one of the country ' s leading Chaucerian scholars, and former Master of Jonathan Edwards College; after a long illnegg. W. W. Pudge Heffelfincer, 86, all-time All-American football player (playing his last game at the age of 53), subject of numerous legends, who found the most effective method of stopping the flying wedge was hurling himself into its apex. Everett Meeks, 75, former Dean of the Yale School of Fine Arts, a noted art educator, under whose leadership the art school grew in size and reputation: after a long illness. John Schroeder, 57, Professor of Religion, Master of Calhoun College, first chairman of Yale ' s Department of Religion, author of several books, and champion of reli- gion and its social relevance ; after a lengthy illness. Harry Shulman, 51, newly appointed Dean of the ;il«- Law School, nationally known labor arbitrator, Sterling Professor of Law, and author of several legal works; after a brief illness. Laurence G. Tiche, 60, retired Treasurer of Yale, lead- ing authority on financial policies of privately endowed institutions, after a long illness. During the decade of his financial direction Yale ' s endowment rose $37,000,000.

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In sports, Bill Cranston, top man on the Eli tennis team, was nudged out of the Na- tional Indoor Championships hy eventual champion Tony Trabert, but Eli track men, led by weight man Stew Thompson, trounced Princeton and Harvard handily in their an- nual meet. Two long success stories ended suddenly as Yale ' s freshman swimming team lost its first meet after 121 consecutive wins, and a thief was finally caught after numerous successful robberies in student rooms. At the alumni banquet, President Griswold awarded medals to Marshall Bartholomew and Chaun- cey Tinker for outstanding service to the university. Commented Tinker: There are only two things you can do when they say things like that about you. One is to die, and that ' s possible. The other is to live up to it, and that ' s impossible. The AF of L and the CIO, the two great union organizations, finally combined, and, just about this time, the French government started its long and tiring quest for a new premier. Candidate upon candidate paraded to the rostrum, only to be cast aside by votes of no confidence; finally Edgar Faure suc- ceeded in forming a winning coalition. The Yale Daily News broke a long-stand- ing tradition by not publishing a Saturday issue. The Harvard Crimson filled the gap, and the battle for supremacy began. The Dramat announced a new spring musical, So What, and perennial favorite Harvey Benat- ovich was to take a leading role. Pierson was celebrating its twenty-first birthday with a banquet and reminiscences from its former masters. A sudden freeze ruined a three million dollar Georgia peach crop, and the contro- versial papers on the Yalta Conference were released by the State Department. Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Michi- gan announced the success of his polio vac- cine, while at Yale chairman Thomas Men- denhall introduced the latest version of the Report of the President ' s Committee on Gen- eral Education. On April 5, time finally caught up with Time ' s Man of the Half-Century as Sir Win- ston Churchill retired after a lifetime of pub- lic service. In an age when men battled for su- premacy in atomic weapons and strug- gled to conquer the killer diseases. Yale found herself becoming a center of scientific progress. Top — The foundations are laid for the AEC-sponsored Physics Laboratory. Middle — An artist ' s conception of the proposed Bio-Physics Laboratory. Bottom — An artist ' s conception of the planned Cancer Laboratory. 21

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In Hendrie Hall, a princely edict. On Chapel Street, a regal procession From the mouths of babes, an American dilemma. On the Merritt Parkway, a grim reminder. THE printed word everywhere caught our attention. In farflung corners of the world American soldiers read ' Yankee Go Home signs scrawled by Communist agita- tors. In America, the Yalta papers were re- leased, and provoked a furor of controversy. Momentous international decisions were re- flected in lengthy documents, designated with telegraphic brevity by alphabetical abbrevia- tions: NATO, SEATO. On occasion the print- ed word leaped out at the Yale man, too, caught and held his interest, sometimes frighteningly, sometimes amusingly. Here are reproduced a few signs of the times. In the Yale man ' s backyard, a feinine fatale. IN THE EVENT OF AN ENEMY ATTACK ON NEW YORK CITY THIS PARKWAY WILL BE CLOSED TO ALL TRAFFIC EXCEPT CIVIL DEFENSES MILITARY VEHICLES 8Y ORDER NEW YORK STATE CIVIL DEFENSE COMM 23