Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most raucous inauguration of all was that of Andrew Jackson, attended by hordes of enthusiastic supporters from the West. After the inauguration, in the words of a contemporary writer, "a motley concourse of people, riding, running helter-skelter," followed Jackson to the White House, where "it was understood that refreshments were to be served." The mob stormed the gates and doors, smashed china and glassware, trampled on delicate satin chairs with muddy boots...
Research, too, is an important function. Every man who has the ill-fortune to collapse with mononucleosis (62 in '51) gets Dr. Andrew Contratto's pamphlet on the disease as part of his Stillman reading-matter. Mono was unknown here until twenty years ago when laboratory blood tests began showing a startling breakdown of white blood corpusles, among other things...
...another act of Christmas charity, the President granted pardons to former Democratic Congressman Andrew May of Kentucky and New Jersey's Republican ex-Congressman J. Parnell Thomas. May served nine months in prison for accepting bribes during his World War II stint as chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Thomas, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, served nine months for taking salary kickbacks from his congressional office staff. Both men have been free since September 1950, but the presidential pardon restores their citizenship rights...
...Andrew M. Gleason, assistant professor of Mathematics, received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize at the association's annual meeting in St. Louis on November 30 for his paper discussing "natural coordinate systems." His solution to a problem that was first propounded in 1900 by the great modern mathematician David Hilbert, is expected to provide a unified field theory between the forces operating within the universe as a whole and the forces within the nuclei of the atoms. Dr. Albert Einstein has been seeking such a theory for the past 30 years...
Watch Service (Wed.11 p.m., NBC). From Manhattan's Church of St. Peter & St. Andrew...