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...Peter Clayton's debut to the Advocate's pages with his story, "Miss Hadley's Lover," falls flat. His account of the struggle of a middle-aged mission teacher with herself reaches the heights of feeling only in awkward spasms. In his attempts to create emotion through language Clayton loses himself in involved prose. His characters lose reality in the process...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: On the Shelf | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

...time Bradley had finished, Senate opposition to the pact was dwindling fast. All week long the committeemen were urged to speed its ratification by a whole parade of witnesses: former Under Secretaries of State Will Clayton and Robert Lovett, the Republicans' John Foster Dulles, former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, Senator Robert Taft's brother, Charles P. Taft, former head of the Federal Council of Churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Next Witness | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard teams, Melvin L. Zurier '50, John H. Sutter '51, and Robert W. Kratz '51, defeated Princeton at Princeton. Zurier was judged the best speaker of the evening. Yale trounced the Crimson's other team, Arthur W. Purcell '50, Peter H. Clayton '50, and J. Phillip Bahn '49, at Cambridge, as Princeton squashed the Elis at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orators Split in 2 H-Y-P Debates | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

This debate takes place tomorrow, Bornstein, Sutter, and Robert W, Kratz '51 journey to Princeton to present their negative argument. Arthur W. Purcell '50, Peter H. Clayton '50, and J. Phillip Bahn '49 will debate the affirmative with Yale here. There six were chosen from a Debate Council competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bornstein, Sutter Receive Coolidge Speaking Awards | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...orators, J. Phillip Bahn '49, Peter H. Clayton '50, Robert W. Kratz '50, Arthur W. Purcell '50, John H. Sutter '51, and Melvin L. Zurier '50, president of the Debate Council, were picked in a preliminary competition two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orators Compete Today for $100 Coolidge Prizes | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

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