Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, before the official opening of Steve Connelly's Rathskeller, a trumpeter named Shad Collins was playing with the Vic Dickenson-Buster Bailey outfit in the little cellar in back of the Bradford. Little Shad is a former Basie star, but his playing, strangely enough, was straight from the Delta, and the group had the most authentic New Orleans sound heard in Boston for some time...
...Real Service." Last week, when William Todhunter Hall got through his weekly stint, a real-life college president -Frederick L. Hovde, of Purdue University-came to the microphone. On behalf of the national fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, Hovde presented the Colmans with a scroll in "appreciation for your accurate and intelligent delineation of campus life ... a real service to education...
...example, ran a series of editorials two weeks ago questioning the national affiliations of Eli fraternities. It pointed out that fraternity members often have to pay out as much as $55 to their national organizations; that in turn they may have to accept rules--such as Phi Gamma Delta's prohibition against pledging Jews--which they find oppressive. The Yalie Daily did not condemn the system, but asked members to consider whether their fraternal ties "might be the result of some refined evangelism...
...soon as the news of the rout reached Hanoi, the French pulled out of Thainguyen. They took up positions on a line halfway between Thainguyen and Hanoi in the flat delta country where communications and supply lines would be shorter and where their artillery and tanks could be used to better advantage. One by one the remaining forts on Route Coloniale No. 4 were falling into Viet Minh hands. The border between Ho and Mao was wide open...
...railway between Hanoi and Ningming crosses the border. Laokay was cut off and dependent on supply by air. There were reports of Communist troops regrouping before Langson, from which civilians were being evacuated. Should either flank fold, the Communists would have uninterrupted rail transport to the rice-rich delta. The Chinese Communists were repairing their ends of the two railways...