Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That South Carolina was on trial, as well as the nine defendants, was made plain by Defense Counsel Frank Taylor, who told the jury: "Your duty is to back up these men." Referring to a SNCC organizer who had been in Orangeburg during the incident, Taylor told the jury to "show our disapproval of militants coming into South Carolina and inciting students." After less than an hour and a half, the jury decided that the highway patrolmen had only done what was expected of them, and found all nine innocent...
...Saussy's friend Jim Webb (whose influence is evident in The Moth's "Midsummer Night"and "Morning Girl," available out of context as a single). Both composers create serious and elaborate structures by joining an array of classical forms with borrowings from the sentimental popular music written for Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Hollywood romances. This approach wrenches hackneyed themes and metaphors into an instantly understandable genre-a musical pop art, but with the same dignity achieved by Charles Ives when he elevated cliches from Sousa and national anthems into symphonies...
Keith Colburn, Noel Hare, Charlie Ajootian and Frank Champi scored a total of 13 points for the Crimson to give it a firm hold on seventh place in the championships. Winning Maryland racked up 45 of its 53 points in the field events to gain a one-point victory over pre-meet favorite Villanova, which was shut out in the field events. Yale scored 23 points to tie Morgan State for third place...
Colburn finished behind New York University's Byron Dyce and 'Villanova's Frank Murphy, who waged a heated battle for first place in the event. Dyce was the eventual winner, and his time of 1:47.4 was the fastest ever in the East...
...Frank Champi, a former Harvard record-holder in the Javelin, threw the spear 225 ft. 5 in. Friday for a fourth place finish. The present record-holder, sophomore Richie Szaro, did not participate in the meet...