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...opening session will take place tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. William Y. Elliott, Director of the Summer School, will preside over the Convocation. Speakers will be Matthew Page Gaffney, Visiting Professor of Education, and Dana M. Cotton, associate director of the Summer School...
...there was a hot sun in the sky and nerve-twanging tension in the air. Before the first round was done, scurrying officials had to flip four times through their complex rule books (sample heading: Hole Made by Burrowing Animal) to settle rhubarbs, including one in favor of Henry Cotton, oldtime monarch of British golf, who was accused of not owning up to an extra stroke. "I said I didn't have a go at it," sniffed Henry, "and those other two chaps [playing companions Jimmy Demaret and Gary Middlecoff] said I did have...
Producer of these two recordings was Columbia's new President Goddard Lieberson (TIME, Oct. u, 1954). Sitting behind the control-room glass in cotton jersey and slacks, he rolled in his chair, clutched his brow, his breast, his colleagues' arms, while demanding one take after another. His problem with Fella was simplified by the fact that the nearly continual music supplied almost all the required atmosphere, from the rowdy, Italianate folk-type songs to the entr'acte hit, Standing on the Corner, to the show's one deeply felt song, Warm All Over. Even so, there...
...landed at Jamestown in 1619, a full year before the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth. The early settlers saw nothing immoral in slavery, since many a white was himself an indentured servant and little better off. Economically, slave labor was on the way out when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and made it profitable to keep huge tracts of land in cultivation. Even so, a rich planter might clear no more than a 1% profit annually. A representative weekly food ration for a slave was "a peck of meal, three pounds of bacon, and a pint of molasses...
...Malcolm Joseph Rogers, 51, onetime page boy, was voted president of the New York Cotton Exchange, world's oldest and largest cotton futures market. Rogers, who still speaks with a Louisiana accent, quit school at 13 to become a page at the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. At Leon Gibert & Co., he moved from office boy to partner, represented the brokerage firm in the New York Cotton Exchange from 1933 to 1935. On his own since then, Rogers spends the full five hours of daily trading sessions on the exchange floor, handling orders in the cotton ring...