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...Continental Congress; ten signed the Declaration of Independence. Later Penn declined. By 1807 the university had only 17 students. Says Professor Edward Potts Cheyney, Penn's official historian: "While New England Congregationalists frequented Yale, and Unitarians Harvard, and Presbyterians of the middle States came trooping to Princeton and Dickinson, Baptists to Brown, Anglicans to Columbia or William & Mary, Pennsylvania in the proud isolation of her freedom, from religious bias found virtue, as usual, its own somewhat cold reward." But in 1828 a Yale graduate...
Michigan. Drawing like a sump pump, good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson, 81, dredged up more than twice the combined vote of his six Republican opponents. As a warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn't vote for me, because I'm 81 years of age. . . . You can't blame them." Isolationist Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg won by 8-to-1 over a Detroit razor blade salesman named Bowen R. Grover...
...auction off a prizewinning black Angus steer, Michigan's State Fair counted on doddery, dirt-farming Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. At the last moment superstitious Governor Dickinson, who is up for election this fall, begged off. Reason : the last four Governors to auction off prizewinners were subsequently defeated...
...World, danced by 16 Grahamites. For it U. S. Composer Hunter Johnson had written a substantial, lengthy musical score; U. S. Scenic Designer Arch Lauterer had built an unprecedented stage load of secret panels, revolving doors and trick modernistic lighting effects. The ballet's subject: Poet Emily Dickinson, the New England spinster who never went out of her Amherst, Mass, house for 24 years, got all her excitement in her own head. Choregrapher Graham divided her ballet in half, gave the Dr. Jekyll half to a pleasant, domestic-looking chorine who recited excerpts from Emily Dickinson's hard...
...there was Emily Dickinson, hidden away in a big house at Amherst where few people ever saw her. She used to send her friends cryptic little notes, often only a single line: "Do you look out tonight?"; "Mrs. S. gets bigger and rolls down the lane to church like a reverend marble"; "Not what the stars have done, but what they are to do, is what detains the sky." She seldom addressed the notes herself. Usually the names and addresses were clipped out of a newspaper and pasted on the envelopes...