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...Gift of the week: to Chatham College, formerly Pennsylvania College for Women, $3,500,000 from the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. The gift, which must be matched by July 1957, will go into permanent endowment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...BENNYE CHATHAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...justify ourselves . . . and we cannot complain about what happens to us." The jury took just over an hour to decide: "Not guilty." A juror later explained: "If we hadn't stopped to drink pop, it wouldn't have taken that long." When the verdict came in, Prosecutor Chatham stared across the courtroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Trial by Jury | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Earnest Effort. The prosecutors for the State of Mississippi-Gerald Chatham, due soon to retire for ill health, and Robert Smith, a Marine Corps hero and former FBI agent-made an earnest and honest effort to build their case at what can be assumed to be great social cost to themselves. They got no help from Tallahatchie's Sheriff H. C. Strider, a cotton planter (1,500 acres), who insisted that Till had been whisked away alive. "This whole thing was rigged," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Trial by Jury | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Passion for Politics. The House of Commons that afternoon hummed with anticipation. The benches were packed tight, but on the government front bench no one sat in the place that in times past has been filled by Walpole, Chatham and Pitt, Wellington, Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone and Churchill. Then, in the middle of question time, Britain's 43rd Prime Minister quickly picked his way over the outstretched feet of his sprawling ministers and subsided into Churchill's seat. The House cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Changing of the Guard | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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