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Bowdoin's Halifax-born Kenneth C. M. Sills, 72, longtime (34 years) president of the college. A former Latin instructor, famed for his fidgets (he used to tear whole handkerchiefs to shreds while teaching), "Casey" Sills mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy "ex-scholar," famed for his love of Dante, for eating (so goes the legend) eleven lobster stews at a sitting, and for liking to run his piny campus just as if Longfellow were still there: "Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls...
...British Broadcasting Corp., got ready to go to work for the Times again, this time as editor. Named to the top editorial spot in British journalism and the first titled editor ever to run the venerable Times (circ. 231,659), Sir William takes the place of William F. Casey, 68, who, after four years in the editor's chair and four decades on the paper, is resigning because of poor health...
...changed his mind? He hadn't changed his mind, said the President. He had never been for the plan at all. ¶ Made public a long letter he had written to Aviator-Farmer C. S. ("Casey") Jones of Washington Crossing, Pa., explaining that the Administration did not actually claim unbounded executive power-as the Department of Justice was trying to prove in court (see above). The gist of the letter: the steel seizure, though "very drastic" and within the President's constitutional powers, did not mean the executive authority was unlimited. "The powers of the President are derived...
...moved his regular press conference (his 300th in seven years) into the dim, cavernous auditorium of the Smithsonian Institution so that 400 visiting editors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors could hear the new Truman in action. After the picture-taking and handshaking, A.S.N.E. President Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal began the show with a planted question that none of the White House regulars had thought to ask before. He asked the President to comment on his "political philosophy in retiring," and Harry Truman...
...usual, the Yankees are still the Yankees, however, and can't be discounted. With rookies and yearlings all over the infield and outfield, the Bombers still have an up-the-middle combination of Berra, McDouglad, and Rizzuto along with three of the best pitchers in the game. Casey Stengel's magic may well pull them in first for the fourth straight year...