Word: firsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lazy days at Key West, Fla. the formalities of the White House had quickly given way to a friendly atmosphere of sport-shirted ease. Harry Truman pitched horseshoes with his staff, bobbed placidly in the blue-green Atlantic waters, sometimes dropped in to chat with reporters on a companionable first-name basis. It was during one such informal visit-at a party for White House Secretary Matt Connelly-that one newsman casually observed that General Dwight D. Eisenhower seemed to be acting oddly like a presidential candidate. As casually, Harry Truman amiably agreed...
...Monday the Council voted to recommend the inclusions in the "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations" a provision making illegal the constitution of any undergraduate organization if the document includes a discriminatory membership clause. The resolution, beaten the first time it was introduced, passed by one vote on a later vote...
Editors at first planned to go ahead with their tub-sharing and fight the case to the highest tribunal if an injunction was served...
...First Play...
...first selection presented yesterday was from George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion." Sherman C. Hawkins '51 took the title part of a kind-hearted Christian of Roman times who removes a thorn from the foot of a lion. Phyllis Courtney of Boston University played his wife, and Richard B. England '53, was the lion...