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...pass on Federal Judge Harold Medina's formula for handling the Communist Party. Seven months ago, in the trial of the party's top leaders, Judge Medina ruled: if it can be shown that a group of Reds is actually plotting to destroy the U.S. "at the earliest time that circumstances would permit," then the state has the right to deal with them, even to the extent of limiting free speech. Last week, in their opinions on another case, five Supreme Court justices sounded as if they might be going even one step further...
This is the earliest that the Henley race has been held since the war, and fits into the schedule well, coming only two weeks after the Yale race. The crew has not gone to Henley since 1939 because the race was scheduled so late. The early date enables the varsity to go directly to England and begin training for the shorter sprint distance of the Henley course, after rowing the four-mile course against Yale...
Letters notifying the Class of 1954 of admission to the College went into the mail last night, marking the earliest acceptance date in recent years. The class will have between 1125 and 1150 members...
...poets' poet, Stevens had been quietly building up his reputation since he won a $100 prize from Poetry magazine in 1914 for four of his earliest verses (Phases). Like London Publisher T. S. Eliot, he has never regarded poetry as a full-time job. To have daily contact with other work, he says, "gives a man character as, a poet." Promptly at 8:15 every weekday morning, Insuranceman Stevens strides into his Hartford office. Often he hands his secretary a crumpled bit of paper bearing a specimen of his minuscule handwriting-his poem for the day. Sample (in which...
From all over the nation, from Sunshine Park, from Gulfstream, and from the waiting stalls at the glue factory, the skim of the nation's horse crop will congregate in little old Rhode Island today in honor of the start of New England's earliest racing season. Lincoln Downs is the name of the track...