Word: dover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outdoor commencement will include an address by Barry Bingham, President and Editor-in-Chief of the Louisville Courier-Journal, in ceremonies in which 193 students will receive B.A. degrees, 24 the P.B.A., 40 the M.A. or M.A.T., and 23 the Ph.D. Reverend Paul A. Kellog, Rector, Christ Church of Dover, Delaware will be chaplain for the event...
Emotional I O Us. To begin with-as Author Maurois has diligently discovered -Miss Howard was not, as she said, an "orphan" from Dover named Harriet Howard. She was Elizabeth Ann Haryett, daughter of a Brighton bootmaker. Seduced at 15 by a jockey named Jem, she became an excellent horsewoman and later an actress at London's Haymarket Theater. At 18 she became the mistress of a wealthy Guards officer, who poured a fortune into her purse. At 19 she bore him a son. When she took the infant to be baptized, she named her own father and mother...
...Negroes dressed in business suits strolled into a Howard Johnson restaurant near Dover, Del. one evening last week, went up to the counter and ordered two 30? glasses of orange juice. As they were handed the juice in containers, wrapped up to take outside, a waitress explained that they could not sit down inside because "colored people are not allowed to eat in here...
...flew home, "that the people of Ghana understand that there are very few people in the U.S. who act that way." And the restaurant manager got word from the Howard Johnson people that he must, henceforth, serve "anybody who comes to our doors"-quite an order for segregation-minded Dover...
...Napoleon ruled the Continent. Like Hitler more than a century later, he was obsessed by the idea that if he could master England, he would become master of the world. And he was sure that, if he could control the Straits of Dover even for twelve hours, England would be his. From the Channel port of Boulogne, he wrote: "The Channel is a mere ditch...