Word: davises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One of the two, pince-nezed Professor William E. Knickerbocker, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, had been in hot water with students for the last four years. He had been accused of anti-Semitic remarks, and of refusing to recommend certain instructors for promotion because they were Jewish...
At first there had been demonstrations, then weeks of smoldering discontent. Finally, under Student Council leadership, students voted to strike. Knickerbocker and Davis, they cried, must be suspended pending an "open trial." Nonsense, answered C.C.N.Y. President Harry N. Wright: "It is equivalent to lynch justice."
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Sidney Howard's Alien Corn, with Bette Davis and Kirk Douglas.
But the men up front are a healthy lot. Peter Manning-Smith, Lou Travis, and Bill Boucher will as usual make up the front line of the scrum, Ferd Schoch and Ed White the second, and John Carey, Joe Soriano, and Eddie Davis the outer shell.
Roger Davis of Adams pitched a no-hitter yesterday to lead his team in a 4 to 3 victory over Kirkland, last year's champion club, while Winthrop edged out Leverett, 6 to 5.