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...that wasn't all. Inside the field house, trainer Eddie Farrell, a Harvard institution himself and the team's most ardent supporter, installed a record-player in a corridor, and College songs invaded the dressing room and showers. Yale game cometh...
John Albert Carroll, 45,husky, humorless, handsome ex-Denver policeman, who was one of the few Democrats in the nation to oust an incumbent Republican (red-faced Dean Gillespie). An ardent New Dealer, Carroll went to night school for six years to be admitted to the Colo rado bar, became Denver district attorney and an A.M.G. major in Italy...
Moreover, he wrote about U.S. life as sympathetically as Alexis de Tocqueville, and despite his foreign habits and ideas, made a profound impression on young Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson met him by chance in a St. Augustine boarding house one winter, described him as "an ardent lover of truth," a "scholar," a "noble" soul...
...blame? The conferees thought they knew the answer. Said Cleveland's Rev. Dores R. Sharpe, Baptist minister, ardent crusader for reform: "John Doe, private citizen, is the real culprit in this shame of democracy...
...your Oct. 7 issue I notice along with sane reporting on the Foreign News front a short article about "Lower Slobbovia" of comic-strip fame. Don't you think TIME is going a little too far by including such trash within its renowned covers? I, an ardent reader, most definitely do. Comic strips have meant to me and many other thinking people nothing more than a beautiful example of America's love of escapist reading. I hope TIME too is not becoming slightly escapist...