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Rendezvous with Destiny : a History of the Yale Class of 1937 and Its Times. [Golden Years; War in the Pacific; War in Europe; The Post-War Years; the Eisenhower Years; The Kennedy Years; The Sixties & Early Seventies; The Later Years]

Rendezvous with Destiny : a History of the Yale Class of 1937 and Its Times. [Golden Years; War in the Pacific; War in Europe; The Post-War Years; the Eisenhower Years; The Kennedy Years; The Sixties & Early Seventies; The Later Years]

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Rendezvous with Destiny : a History of the Yale Class of 1937 and Its Times. [Golden Years; War in the Pacific; War in Europe; The Post-War Years; the Eisenhower Years; The Kennedy Years; The Sixties & Early Seventies; The Later Years]

by Field, John W. (John Warner),1914- [illustrations, A. L. Morris; poem, William A. Borst]

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Canaan, N.H. : Phoenix Publishing ; [Littleton, NH : Courier Printing Company ; Concord, NH : Hew Hampshire Bindery], 1984., 1984. Fine. Limited edition (of 1,000 two-volume sets) ; 2 vols. (viii, 300, 332 pp.) ; 24 cm. ; blue and white cloth with gold lettering and illustration by A. L. Morris in gold, spine with red decorative elements, both volumes in one slipcase covered with blue cloth with the Morris illustration in gold ; ISBN: 0914659065 (set) ; LCCN: 84-91147 ; OCLC: 10998833 ; "...The war changed everything for us; we and the world could never be the same. After it was over we settled down into a wistful normalcy, building our careers as doctors, lawyers, teachers, bankers, businessmen, writers and artists....but we were never far from the turbulent history of our times. In that history many of us played a central role, influencing the paths of constant change. ...This, then is the story of a generation, told through the personal lives of a college class."-- from the foreword ; end of volume two contains a detailed class roll with personal information of each class member, with the names of their spouses a nd children, their then-current address, and details of their life's work and achievements, as well as their hobbies (!) ; unusual ; FINE/FINE

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Rendezvous with Destiny : a History of the Yale Class of 1937 and Its Times. [Golden Years; War in the Pacific; War in Europe; The Post-War Years; the Eisenhower Years; The Kennedy Years; The Sixties & Early Seventies; The Later Years]
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Field, John W. (John Warner),1914- [illustrations, A. L. Morris; poem, William A. Borst]
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Canaan, N.H. : Phoenix Publishing ; [Littleton, NH : Courier Printing Company ; Concord, NH : Hew Hampshire Bindery], 1984.
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1984
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