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Hero-Victim. "In the early summer of 1902," begins Wilder, "John Barrington Ashley of Coaltown, a small mining center in southern Illinois, was tried for the murder of Breckenridge Lansing, also of Coaltown. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Five days later, at 1 in the morning of Tuesday, July 22, he escaped from his guards on the train that was carrying him to his execution...
...commanding general. Second, when they do write, they rarely praise drill instructors, their traditional scourge. But the most significant fact about the letter is that it was composed by white men-all but two of them from Texas-in praise of their drill instructor, Staff Sergeant Joshua Ashley, a Negro. No presidential report could better document the dramatic gains in status and esteem that the Negro has made in the armed forces of the U.S. within the past few years...
...help celebrate its birthday, Kansas invited a sampling of intellectuals: Designer Buckminster Fuller, former Supreme Court Justice Charles Whittaker, Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, Broadway Producer-Director Harold Clurman, Rule-of-Law Expert Arthur Larson. But the center of attention was a long-dead Kansas woman, Carry Nation. For the centennial observation, which will go on for six months, Composer Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), now a visiting professor at K.U., wrote an opera about that booze-hating feminist's tortured marriage and bar-smashing career. Now in rehearsal at the university's handsome...
...board of Athens College in Greece, and a member of the board of trustees of Williams, was eager to cooperate. He invited three top U.S. educators to advise Thai government leaders and educators on construction and programming of the new university. Dr. John E. Sawyer, president of Williams, Dr. Ashley S. Campbell, dean of engineering at Tufts, and Dr. Richard T. Goll, master of Harvard's Leverett House, are already in Thailand. "I hope that when the educators get back to the U.S.," Linen told Thai newsmen, "they will be active-as I will be-in helping...
Accompanying Gill are John Sawyer, president of Williams College and Ashley Campbell '40, dean of the engineering school at Tufts University...