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Your main article under "The Nation" in the Dec. 19 issue has left me quite appalled. You note random thoughts of the President-elect in regard to the mistakes made by his predecessors. I feel that I as the daughter of Mr. William H. Woodin must go to bat for a great American who gave his life for his country and now cannot speak for himself. The events and history of the late 1920s and of the early 1930s prove, I am sure, the worthiness of the former Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin. Furthermore, Mr. Roosevelt had known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1961 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...Island Residents. Indigenas who endure the system without protest live peacefully enough. For those who rebel there is the palmatória-a stout, flat bat with holes in it. A dozen sharp blows of the palmatória on the open palm leave welts and blisters that last for weeks. Persistent troublemakers disappear quietly to the labor camps of São Tomé, Portugal's little island prison in the Gulf of Guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portuguese Africa: The Sleeper | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Freshman Swimming; Freshman Intramural Dorm Chairman; Kirkland House Committee '59-'60 (Chairman '60-'61); House Swimming, Tennis, Touch Football; Bat Club; D.E. Club; Hasty Pudding; Junior Usher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for Senior Class Marshal | 12/3/1960 | See Source »

...baoquet captain Al Martin received the Wendell Bat, for compelling the best offensive record on the team. Martin captained last year's varsity, played second base, and led the team in runs-batted-in with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Awards | 11/30/1960 | See Source »

Hoisting a Highball. As they had so often over the regular season, the Yankees fought back and were leading, 7-6, in the eighth inning, when another of baseball's castoffs, Catcher Hal Smith, 29, came to bat for Pittsburgh. On a pitch low and fast, Smith hit a three-run homer to give the Pirates a 9-7 lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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