Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Able, friendly Ed Thye (pronounced thigh) owes everything to Harold Stassen, who hand-picked him as his successor when Stassen resigned as governor to enter the Navy early in 1943. Thus when Stassen decided that he could best further his chances outside the Senate, Ed Thye was ready with his...
"Why," asked Stalin further, "did Mr. Churchill have to delude people" and "wander around the truth" in speaking of the growth of Communism in Europe? Churchill had made it sound like the result of Communist police-government tactics. It was really that Europe's "common people, having tried the...
The British already rode the Peró bandwagon (they were never off it). Sir Montague Eddy, boss of Britain's billion-dollar investment in Argentine railways, was reportedly ready to strike a deal permitting expropriation of his railways by Peró. Trade scouts were promising trucks and buses, more...
George Santayana, a wit once said, "believes that there is no God and that Mary is His mother." Last week the suavest living philosopher further compounded the paradox. At 82, he published The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Scribner; $2.75), probably his most important book. It is also probably...
On another intramural front, Adams House tankmen yesterday tightened their grip on their swimming league lead by outsplashing Lowell 27 to 20 in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. Meanwhile Dunster athletes further bludgeoned Leverett with a 35 to 13 ducking to climb into fourth place behind Adams, Kirkland, and Winthrop...