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Died. Carlos Llamas Romulo, 32, Georgetown University-educated Manila lawyer, World War II hero, eldest son of General Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. and delegate to the U.N.; in a plane crash south of Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Davies worked his way through law school at Washington's Georgetown University, the first year by working the graveyard shift as a cop on the U.S. Capitol police force. Says he: "The chief had a motley aggregation. One fellow had one leg and I was only five foot one. The chief didn't like that very well. I had a perfect record though-didn't make an arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VISITING JUDGE IN LITTLE ROCK: I'm Just One of a Couple of Hundred | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...district judge named Ronald Davies, who had arrived in Little Rock from Fargo, N. Dak. only nine days before to take the bench of a judge who had retired. Curt, cool Judge Davies, 52, son of a small-town North Dakota' newspaper editor, got his law at Georgetown University, and practiced in Grand Forks (pop. 32,500) until President Eisenhower appointed him to the bench in 1955. Davies took just six minutes to order the school board to go ahead with its plans despite Governor Faubus. Said he: "Integration must begin forthwith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Making a Crisis in Arkansas | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...latest comet in the telescopes of the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, was a paleontologist of world renown who unearthed conclusive evidence that the so-called Peking man discovered in China in 1929 was human. Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University is a recognized expert on eclipses. Many

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Army in Black | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...lighter side of Dumbarton Oaks is the gardens surrounding it. The part of the property owned by Harvard covers nearly two city blocks in width and extends over a mile in length. The grounds run from Georgetown, the oldest section of Washington, to the newer but equally plush Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue. The grounds around the main building, which houses the library, museum, and study rooms, are covered with the most beautiful formal gardens in Washington. Not an American Versailles, Dumbarton Oaks, with its fountains, box hedges, and old shade trees, does manage to retain an aristocratic aura...

Author: By Alfred Friendly, | Title: Dumbarton Oaks | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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