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...controlled University of the South,* popularly known as Sewanee, filed into their annual meeting one day last June, they knew it was to be no ordinary occasion. Usually their problems had been routine, for in all its 95 years, nothing much had ever ruffled the peaceful campus on the Cumberland plateau of Tennessee. But this time, the regents had a ticklish vote to take: Should they abide by the recommendation of the Fourth Province Synod and admit Negroes to the School of Theology? After hours of debate, the regents voted...
...whittling the normal Democratic majority in the ham-and-hominy belt of Leon County. In Virginia, with half the.votes counted, the race was already over; Ike was carrying Richmond by more than 2 to 1, carrying Roanoke and Lynchburg by 2 to 1, edging ahead even in rural Cumberland and Powhatan Counties. For the first time since 1928. Virginia was swinging Republican, 111,000 to 88,000. In Maryland, the story was the same: at the halfway mark Ike led with a 55% majority, including a lead in the Democratic stronghold of Baltimore...
Died. David John ("Little Davey") Lewis, 83, onetime Pennsylvania coal miner who served 14 years as U.S. Congressman from western Maryland, helped found (in 1912) the nation's parcel post system; in Cumberland, Md. When he was nearly nine, Lewis shouldered a miniature pick & shovel, followed his father down a mine shaft to earn $10 a month. He was 17 before he learned to write, was once pulled out of a mine cave-in, half dead, with a physics book in his pocket. In 1910 Lewis was elected to Congress, identified himself as a left-wing Democrat...
...first inkling that The Musicians was still in existence came in the mid-'30s, when a north-of-England antique dealer named Joe Cookson spotted an interesting painting in a Cumberland country house. "It was very grimy," recalls Dealer Cookson, "and you could see that it had been painted over and over. The name 'Caravaggio' was on it, and the tag end of the 'Michelangelo...
...Britain's rugged Cumberland Hills where Peel's "View Halloo!" wakened the fox from his lair in the early 19th century, a newer type of sport, spurred by austerity, has become the rage: hound trailing, where yelping hounds, without horsemen, follow a man-made spoor over hill & dale. The deep-chested foxhounds are descendants of the hunting packs of Peel's time. But the owners are a different breed altogether. Few of England's pinched aristocracy can any longer afford the luxury of thoroughbred horses, pink coats and the rest of fox hunting's traditional...