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Indiana. Democratic Candidate Matthew Empson Welsh. 48, a trial lawyer by trade, is aiming his best prosecution stabs at arch-conservative Republican Crawford Parker, 54. lieutenant governor during the drab regime of outgoing Governor Harold Handley, who cannot succeed himself and would be defeated if he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FIGHT FOR THE STATE HOUSES | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...example is Grosse Point High School's Tony Lott, accepted by Dartmouth, although he scored 470 on the English achievement test. He weighs 202 Ibs. and is a varsity football guard. (He "might" go out for football at Dartmouth.) Walter Empson of Hillcrest High School in Dallas averaged only 600 on the tests, but was president of the student council and a star basketball player. His letter from Princeton was no surprise: "The coach told me some time ago that I was pretty well in." This sort of thing evokes the words of a top Eastern college representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ivy Harvest | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Only in the broad jump among the field events, does Princeton pose a serious threat, with three 21 foot-plus jumpers in Murray Peyton, Ray Empson, and Dave Smith. Henry Wente and Dave Gately will have to do much better than their weak showings of last Saturday...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Track Squad Rated Over Tigers | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

This time, the Tigers faked their way to their third touchdown. A Statue of Liberty by Ray Empson from Mottley for seven yards brought the ball to the Crimson 20 yard-line, where Mottley, this time faked a long pass and then raced through center for Princeton's third score. Alan Manzler converted to increase the Tigers' margin to 21-0 an the half. During the first half Princeton had amassed exactly 150 yards in the air, completing six passes...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: TIGERS DOWN CRIMSON, 35-20 | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

...training of his youth and college years at Georgetown, graduate study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, his years as a lawyer, and extensive European travel. At Cambridge, his supervisor was I.A. Richards, whose standards of artistic excellence based on absolutes conditioned Sweeney's critical tastes. Working with Richards and William Empson in Basic English stimulated in appreciation of poetry's lingual exactness and internal architecture...

Author: By Stevin R. Rivkin, | Title: Benevolent Father | 3/15/1956 | See Source »

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