Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until then, Charles C. Griffin '22, a visiting professor from Vassar, will instruct three courses in the area. Griffin, who will begin a year at the University in the Fall, will fill a void due to the departure last spring of Thomas F. McGann '41. McGann taught four courses that comprised the entire offering in Latin American history...
...Griffin will instruct a full course surveying historical development in the area and a Fall half-course on Latin America and international relations. During the Spring, he will conduct a graduate seminar in general Latin American history...
...GRIFFIN Jersey City
When Marclan Walker was born in Griffin, Ga., she weighed 7 Ibs. and appeared perfectly normal, just like her two older sisters. Not until Marclan was five months old did her mother notice anything unusual. Then it was a lack of infant energy. "I had no worry about her falling or wriggling off a bed," Myrtis Walker says, "because she just stayed exactly where she was put." But soon her father, the Rev. Lorenda R. Walker, took a pastorate in Columbus. The trip to Ohio in a model A Ford was rough, and Marclan came down with pneumonia. At Columbus...
...strange as any medieval unicorn or griffin is the life and personality of Terence Hanbury ("Tim") White. He lives on the pebble-sized English Channel isle of Alderney (pop. 1,600), famed for its low taxes, cheap liquor, puffins and stormy petrels. Stormy Petrel White arrived ten years ago announcing that he was a 17-time bigamist on the lam from Britain, and ever since, his pranks have been the pub chatter of the natives. A sun-cured, white-bearded bachelor of 52, White lives alone except for the hedgehogs, snakes and hawks that he favors as pets. His absentmindedness...