Word: calhouns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Polletti developed into scoring threats from their forward positions. A fine defensive halfback line of Mike Kohler, Tom Gleason and John Harberson was backed up by the Elephants' impermeable Final House Football Standings W L T Yale Opponent Dunster 7 0 0 Trumbull Kirkland 6 1 0 Calhoun Winthrop 3 3 1 Davenport Adams 3 3 1 Silliman Leverett 3 4 0 Timothy Dwight Dudley 2 5 0 Berkeley Eliot 1 5 1 Jonathan Edwards Lowell 1 6 0 Pierson...
...Holy Macirony . . ." Last week Art Student Gwendolyn Bannister, 22, and Olympic Track Star Lee Calhoun, 24, were one of five couples joined together, as the show's prize blooper went, "in holy macirony." The ceremony opened with headlines screaming, TV MARRIAGE A PROBLEM, TRACK STAR'S DILEMMA. Calhoun's dilemma had been posed earlier by the Amateur Athletic Union, which charged him with "attempt to capitalize on athletic fame" and threatened his amateur standing. Cried Producer Roger Gimbel: "This is a terrible thing. The A.A.U. is intruding upon the pursuit of happiness." Gimbel also said the show...
...Next Prize ..." After the ceremony (performed by Lee's father, the Rev. Carrie Calhoun of the Evening Star Baptist Church of Gary, Ind.), the couple moved from the chapel set into the "reception room" with its artificial ivy, phony fireplace and tableload of shiny booty. The stagehands had already poured the Moet & Chandon champagne, and NBC had trundled in Jackie Robinson to greet the newlyweds. After some cued-in applause and plugs for Jackie (as an executive of Chock Full o' Nuts and publicity man for Look), there was a telegram from Floyd Patterson, also arranged...
...around the courthouse: "Go ahead -if you can take what comes afterwards." In McCormick County, S.C., what came afterward for several Negro sharecroppers was that they could not find white buyers for their produce; in Humphreys County. Miss. Negro businessman registrants found that they could not get credit. In Calhoun County, S.C. any Negro who tries to get a registration certificate is called a "smart" Negro, and Calhoun County encourages smart Negroes to migrate...
Oakly has come a long way since John Calhoun wrote of his life there: "My wine has started, finally." The Lovers' Lane that bordered the estate in Calhoun's time is still there, and the gardens are as lovely as ever, but Dumbarton Oaks, itself, has changed greatly. Once the residence of a Yale man, it is now the scene of Harvard's expansion into a field beset by growing pains but very much alive...