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...this morning in Sanders Theatre, the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold its traditional Literary Exercises. After electing new undergraduate and honorary members, the Brethren will march from Harvard Hall to the Theatre, led by the fife and drum. Speaker at the Exercises will be Julian P. Boyd, professor of History at Princeton, and the Poet will be Dudley Fitts '25, instructor in English at Phillips Andover Academy...
...alarm clock went off, rousing the bedroom's two occupants: William Fife Knowland. a retired politician, and Alice, a Saint Bernard who at 165 lbs. weighs just 60 less than her dieting master. After showering, shaving and dressing. Bill Knowland went downstairs for coffee with Paul Manolis, 32, his assistant, who lives a mile away. Then the two men set out on the fourmile. 55-minute walk from the Knowland home in suburban Piedmont to downtown Oakland, Calif., where former U.S. Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland now makes a living as editor of the Oakland evening Tribune (circ...
...health declining, Adams put aside the fife, the piccolo, the mouth organ and the penny whistle he invariably brought with him to social occasions, and entered the Lynwood Nursing Home in uptown Manhattan. There he died last week at 78, of arteriosclerosis. Some years earlier he had parodied Henley's Invictus...
...filed by to gaze at the frail, wrinkled figure, resplendent in the grey-and-gold uniform of an honorary Confederate general. At a public ceremony in the Houston Music Hall, Texas Governor Price Daniel and representatives of ten other Southern Governors, plus federal and military dignitaries, heard the fife-and-drum corps play his favorites: Dixie, When Johnny Comes Marching Home and The Yellow Rose of Texas. Said U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough: "He was the last warrior of a lost cause, the sole remaining soldier of a whole civilization. The combatants are all gone now, but we stand...
...Oakland Tribune (circ. 208,029). Repeatedly, the Guild attempted to organize the Tribune, repeatedly it failed. But last week, trying once more to move to Oakland, the union found strength in a new source: staff discontent with the regime of the Tribune's assistant publisher. William Fife Knowland, 51, sometime (1953-58) Republican leader of the U.S. Senate...