Word: arthur
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Although a scheduled team race was cancelled when two boats withdrew because of high westerly winds, Harvard freshman skippers beat Tabor Academy in an informal sailing match yesterday, 29-28. The skippers were Stephen Newhall, who placed second; Arthur Donovan, who came in third; and Larry Snideman, fifth...
...main purpose was to build good will by impressing the Latin generals with the quick punch that the U.S. could bring to their .aid in the event of real aggression anywhere in the hemisphere. Mindful of this role, the U.S. extended full military honors to the visitors, and Admiral Arthur Radford, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew down to play host...
...away with the Academic Council, which had played a part in forming university policy. To some faculty-men, Stout seemed not only highhanded; he also seemed a threat to academic standards. Especially critical was Biologist Frank Richardson, who in 1952 circulated among his colleagues an article by Historian Arthur Bestor Jr. attacking the brand of educational thinking that President Stout appeared to represent (TIME, June 15, 1953). To Stout, Richardson's act was the climax of a long record of insubordination. After a brief hearing, the five-man Board of Regents sacked Professor Richardson...
Though Richardson was later ordered reinstated by the State Supreme Court, his case snowballed. Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox Bow Incident) accused the administration of "seeking to reduce the university to a manageable mediocrity," handed in his resignation as a lecturer in English. Economist Arthur L. Grey Jr. declared that the university was "in full retreat" from democracy, and Biologist Thomas Little resigned after accusing Stout of granting faculty raises on the basis of "favoritism...
Like many another U.S. newspaper, the nation's most prestigious daily has long been a family paper. In 1917 Arthur Hays Sulzberger married Iphigene Ochs. only daughter of Adolph Simon Ochs, turned down his father's cotton business, went to work for the New York Times; in 1935 he succeeded the late great Adolph Ochs as president and publisher of the Times. Last week, in the same pattern, the tradition moved into another generation. Named the new president of the Times, succeeding Arthur Hays Sulzberger, was Orvil E. Dryfoos, 44, who married Sulzberger's daughter Marian...