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...battle of Flodden Field, which was fought within sight of the Homes' front lawn at Coldstream, Archibald, 5th Earl of Douglas, otherwise known as Bell-the-Cat, and the 3rd Lord Home both fought the Sassenach. Home tried to rally his followers against the English longbowmen. "A Home! A Home!" he cried. But his men-or so legend has it-misunderstood his order and trotted off home. It was then that the family decided to avert future disasters by pronouncing the name "Hume...
Solicitor General Archibald Cox yesterday assured University officials that the Justice Department is keeping close watch on the case of John W. Perdew '64 and other civil rights workers now serving their third month in a Georgia prison for integration activities...
...addition to making money contributions, students will be asked to send letters to President Kennedy, Gov. Carl Sanders of Georgia, members of Congress, and U.S. Solicitor General Archibald Cox. Cox was selected instead of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy because only the Soliticter General has the right to fle amleus curas briefs it like Percew...
...Quadrangualer at New London, Conn., the Crimson's second team finished third, behind M.I.T. and Coast Guard, while edging Boston College. John Archibald in the Raven, Oliver Everett in the K-boat, and Desmond Fitzgerald and Rodney Tenney in the International Twelves skippered the Crimson to its third place total of 72 points. M.I.T. piled up 107 to win the meet...
Ezra Pound's cantos showed "scraps of minor classics in Greek and Latin, but not a single idea of his own." Archibald MacLeish was "a college-educated and practiced publicist trying hard to think." Frost's principal êete noire was Edgar Lee Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology made him a literary lion in the '20s. "His new book," Frost wrote waspishly, "proves my original suspicion, not that Masters is just dead but that he was never very much alive." H. L. Mencken he dismissed as "that non-fur-bearing skunk...