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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in many years the Crimson track team has entered New York's Millrose Games, and tonight the mile relay team of Al Cairns, French Anderson, Al Wills, and Dick Wharton will try for the John G. Anderson Trophy for the fastest college relay of the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cohen, Relay Team Enter Millrose Meet | 2/4/1956 | See Source »

Fines collected by the University police for car registration and parking infractions now total approximately $2,500, Charles G. Pyne, Administrative Assistant to the Vice President, revealed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Parking Fines Total $2500 | 2/4/1956 | See Source »

...five youths who first gathered under William G. Peckham's leadership in 1866, for example, advocated some astonishingly radical doctrines: chapel should no longer be compulsory; Harvard should become a University; and there should be closer student-faculty relationships. As any fool could plainly see, Peckham and his cohorts publishing the Advocate (then called the Collegian) were revolutionaries...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Advocate: Danger Was Once Sweet | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

...athletic contest of an undecided nature was being whipped up between Iowa's crew-cut Republican Governor Leo Hoegh (pronounced Hoe-igg), a onetime (1928-29) swimming star at Iowa State University, and Michigan's lanky Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, onetime (1930-33) varsity crewman at Princeton. After Hoegh addressed a savants' meeting at Iowa State, a professor congratulated Hoegh on Iowa State's recent victory (48-45) over the University of Michigan's swimming team, then suggested that Hoegh take on Soapy Williams in a personal swimming match, a benefit affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Died. Frederick G. Zinsser, 87, organizer, president (1897-1925) and chairman of the board (1925-52) of Zinsser & Co., chemical manufacturing firm; in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. Among his noted relatives : his daughters, Ellen, wife of former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy, and Peggy, wife of former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Lewis Douglas; his brother, the late Bacteriologist-Author Hans (Rats, Lice and History) Zinsser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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