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...becoming a city-state, by virtue of our power, we automatically become a major nation, with a manifest destiny to conquer not only Radcliffe, but also Central Square, M.I.T., and eventually Katie Gibbs. Should the necessity arise, we might also (reluctantly) take over the rest of the world. Obviously, to accomplish these grand schemes Free Harvard would require a strong political organization. Fortunately, we have such a long tradition of sheer autocracy under deans and other supernumeraries that we cannot fail to be a powerful state. Luckily the University has not been afflicted with any of this unhealthy milksop Student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Vellucci's Gauntlet | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Douglas, 57, got into a polar mood, hauled out a furry parka and seemed on the verge of heading north. For the first time in eight years, however, Globe-Trotter Douglas will stay around the U.S. this summer, possibly because he has run out of new terrains to conquer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...doctors packing, each with his faith badly shaken in both humanity and the Hippocratic oath. Restless Paris Doctor Jean l'Haridon, 35, wartime resistance fighter and onetime Boy Scout, hoped to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessors; he saw He de Sein as a new world to conquer. When he heard that the island was again without a doctor, he volunteered his services. At first, Dr. l'Haridon was delighted. In his first week he set a fisherman's broken leg, sewed up another's gashed hand, made the rounds of 50 "economically feeble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Island Doctor | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...Huey did had a lot to do with my victory," Earl Long said. "We were more or less opposite types, however. I'm the slow, plodding type, and Huey was quick and ready at all times. He was kind of on the style of Alexander the Great. Alexander conquered the world before he was 21 and cried be cause he didn't have more worlds to conquer. Huey was like that. I've often wondered how Huey would have made out physically if he had lived to be an old man. He died when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Younger Brother | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...more Shaw's fault than the producer's), but when Dennis King swept onstage as "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne, he and Actor Evans had a rousing time matching paradoxes and genteel insults. On CBS, Omnibus journeyed back 184 years to resurrect Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, with a polished cast (Michael Redgrave, Hermione Gingold, Walter Fitzgerald) that made the conceits and posturings of Restoration comedy as palatable as they are ever likely to be on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Week in Review | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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