Word: fenno
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Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Frank W. Fenno, 70, Navy submarine commander who, shortly before the fall of Corregidor in 1942, stole into enemy-infested Manila Bay in the U.S.S. Trout to deliver a cargo of ammunition and slipped out two days later to carry most of the Philippine treasury to safety; of cancer; in Kensington, Md. On his way to Pearl Harbor with the loot, Fenno sank two enemy vessels, winning the first of three Navy Crosses...
...Congress and TIME editors. The panel participants included Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, executive director of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; Dr. Charles O. Jones of the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Nelson W. Polsby of the University of California at Berkeley; and Dr. Richard F. Fenno Jr. of the University of Rochester. They discussed the state of Congress today, analyzed the institution's loss of powers and considered ways in which it might improve both its workings and its status in the country. A fifth and final conference will be held in Washington...
Another dilemma working to the disadvantage of Congress is described by University of Rochester Political Scientist Richard Fenno, who wrote The Power of the Purse: Appropriations Politics in Congress. Fenno claims that most people "love their Congressmen, but not Congress." It is easy to like a legislator for his personal style and policy views, Fenno notes, but difficult to admire a Congress because it is expected to solve national problems-and it rarely can. Moreover, many Congressmen "portray themselves as the gallant fighters against the manifest evils of Congress; they run for Congress by running against Congress." As Congress thus...
...real facts leading up to a concert which was asymmetric in that men and women represented Yale while only men represented Harvard. Considering that the only concert the Harvard Glee Club presents to the Harvard community as a glee club is the annual fall football concert, I wrote to Fenno Heath, conductor of the Yale Glee Club, on April 30 expressing my wish to keep this year's concert in the traditional style: a performance by tow glee clubs. It was my understanding at the time that the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Women's Chorus were two separate...
...alma mater question. I take full responsibility for suggesting to Fenno Heath that each group sing its own. It was my opinion that until such time as women are officially admitted to Harvard College, the official song representing the institution should be sung...