Word: calhouns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot's baseball team lost to Yale champion Calhoun College, 12 to 11, in a seven-inning slugfest, also at New Haven. The Elephants tied the game at 11-all in the top of the seventh, but reliefer Nick Blume was unable to prevent the winning Calhoun run in the bottom of the inning. Left fielder John Bigelow, with three hits, and catcher Bob Radner, with two hits and some fine defensive work, led the Eliot attack...
...without any courting from him. Jackson beat him, but the electoral vote was close enough to throw the election into the House of Representatives. There, with an assist from Kentucky's Henry Clay, who controlled the votes of three states, Adams was elected. (His Vice President: John C. Calhoun, who kept the job under Jackson until he resigned to become U.S. Senator from South Carolina.) For John Quincy Adams, Author Bemis says, the manner cff his election "was unsatisfactory to his pride...
...North Carolina College's crack hurdler, Lee Calhoun, matched the indoor 60-yd. high-hurdle mark with...
...sickest and crookedest town in the country." Then, brushing aside the jokes, the show tried to present Beverly Hills as a typical American town-and merely succeeded in stripping it of its glamour. Introduced were a churchgoing father of four (Jimmy Stewart), a home-loving, family-raising couple (Rory Calhoun and Lita Baron), a beauty who spends her time quizzing kids on the Bible (Eleanor Powell), a couple who have been ideally married for 30 years (the Sam Goldwyns). There was no telling how many fascinating residents were considered and rejected for the show as not fitting a phony...
...turned out, last week's Virginia Resolution was a very watered-down version of the original. Earlier drafts, which bluntly declared the court decision null and void (after the style of Calhoun's nullificationist South Carolina in 1832), were abandoned when it became apparent that they would probably not pass the general assembly. Many assemblymen feel that outright nullification would be absurd and futile; other Virginians fear that it might interfere with the Gray Plan (TIME...