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Along about 1940, North Carolina's Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, Congress' oldest member, inaugurated a biennial ritual that Washington hands learned to take as a sign of spring. First comes a spate of rumors that Muley will not run again. Then comes a statement to the press: in response to his friends' demands, he will run after all. The ceremony came off right on schedule a fortnight ago; it was almost time to look for the first forsythia. Then, last week, Muley sadly broke the tradition. He announced that his doctors had ordered him not to risk...
...biennial election of a city manager by the Cambridge City Council came before the council's meeting yesterday but was tabled until next week. Present City Manager John P. Atkinson will remain temporarily in office until next Monday...
...HAVEN, Nov. 20, 1951--Yale was a quiet spot in the middle of a stormy city today as New Haven merchants began to prepare for the biennial influx of several thousand old Harvards and Blues...
...School's third biennial analysis of positions in the field of Law will open this afternoon at 4 p.m. with a keynote address by Assistant Dean Louis A. Toepfer on "How to Find a Law Job." His talk will be given in Langdell South Middle...
...Manhattan's lower East Side, in a hired hall where such jazzmen as "Wild Bill" Davison and Max Kaminsky blow their horns, the leaders of the U.S. Communist Party assembled last week to tootle their stuck whistles. It was the party's 15th biennial convention. There were placards to set the theme. "Hail the Socialist Soviet Union, Guardian of World Peace," said one. "Seat Red China in the U.N." "Mail Birthday Greetings to Our Leader, William Z. Foster...