Word: fifes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every year on the Monday of Commencement Week, a select group of men in academic robes assembles outside of Harvard Hall and, led by a fife and drum corps, proceed to march across the Yard and into Sanders Theatre. If this group is smaller or less imposing than the main Commencement procession, it is certainly no less distinctive, for it is the procession of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society to its annual literary meeting...
...word buzzed through the assembly chamber: Bill Knowland has announced that he will not run for re-election to the Senate in 1958 (TIME, Jan. 14). In California, where the body politic revolves around the uncomfortable triumvirate of Knight, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, gossips thought they saw what lay in Knowland's mind: return to California, wrest the governorship from Goodie Knight in 1958, battle Dick Nixon for the GOPresidential nomination...
...enough cause for concern with events already at hand. For the session of the 85th Congress that began last week is the critical test of Knowland's leadership. And the record written by the 85th may decide once and for all the ultimate political future of William Fife Knowland...
Such behavior is strange in the political rough-and-tumble. But Knowland has never known any other way to act. The essential to understanding William Fife Knowland is that although he is driven furiously by a sense of destiny, he is always controlled by the traditions of dynasty...
...with no time to waste on clothes-buying, he tried to stuff himself back into his prewar civvies. For months, until Helen Knowland finally took charge and ordered him some new suits, Washington held its breath in anticipation of the occasion when California's young Republican Senator William Fife Knowland would literally bust his britches...