Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought he was right. Rather than revealing a new trend, last week's election results retold an old story. The Republican Party has been weak for 20 years. Without the wide, bipartisan appeal of Dwight Eisenhower, the G.O.P. would have been in trouble in 1952. No party can expect the prestige or the popularity of its President to blind the voters to local shortcomings, or to make up for lack of local leadership and organization. Where it had the best of local issues and good organization work last week, e.g., Philadelphia and Chicago, the G.O.P. won. Where...
...internal combustion engines, the greys were as much of an anachronism as the three gleaming detachments of the Household Cavalry which escorted the Queen's coach, but all played their parts in the elaborate ceremonial of royal rule with the dignity and solemnity that Britons expect of the occasion...
...week: Douglas M. Knight, 32, to succeed Nathan Pusey as twelfth president of little (800 students) Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis. A Yale Ph.D. and authority on Alexander Pope, Knight joined the Yale faculty in 1946, rose to become assistant professor of English. With his new appointment, he can expect to go far in the academic world. Among Lawrence faculty men who have: Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University, Victor Butterfield, president of Wesleyan University, John S. Millis, president of Western Reserve -and Pusey, now president of Harvard...
...trifle, but a sophisticated one-a Boyer Meets Girl. Its love-making is the kind that puts the couch before the altar, with Actress Martin as an unmarried stage star, and Boyer a State Department charmer who pretends to be married so that no lady he woos can ever expect him to marry her. In due time, Miss Martin finds out that the deceiver is a bachelor, attempts revenge and, of course, achieves matrimony...
President Pusey has already announced that the new dean will be chosen before the end of this term. Many expect him to be named within the next few weeks...