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Yale's harriers have unusual strength and depth and have lost only one meet, to Cornell, the Heptagonal champions. Four Bulldog seniors, Captain John Clearly, Martin Duckworth, John Meader, and Joe Albanese, have been bunched closely in meets this year. McCurdy's hopes for victory depend on Maguire, San Soucie, and French breaking up the tightly knit Yale group, as they did in last year's meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Meet Princeton, Yale for Big Three Trophy | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

Said Supreme Court Chief Justice W. H. (for William Henry) Duckworth: the "records justify every conclusion stated [in the paper's series] . . . [There are] no grounds whatever to sustain a conviction for contempt . . . The judge was utterly without power to require or compel publication . . . without pay [of the proof] he requested them to publish . . . If a worthy judge may employ contempt-of-court process to silence unjust criticism . . . then this same rule would enable an unworthy judge to silence the press in just criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Decision Reversed | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...could get them, Author Braddon ate cats, dogs, snakes, grubs, fungus and leaves. He notes that "snake tastes like gritty chicken mixed with fish; dog tastes like rather coarse beef; cat like rabbit, only better." The camp had its rare saints, and one was the Anglican padre, Noel Duckworth. Putting on a winning smile, he would call to some brutish guard: "Come here, you charming little lump of garbage, and buy this perfectly worthless pen." The proceeds always went for food for all prisoners. Day in & day out, the padre conducted an average of three funerals as the men died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Test of Humanity | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

EDWARD G. DUCKWORTH Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Born. To Benny Goodman, 36, swing-man-symphonist, and Alice Hammond Duckworth, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt: their second child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Benjie ("after her father"). Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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