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Freshman coach Bruce Munro said that his team played its "poorest first-half game of the season, bar none," but singled out Griffin McClellan, high Crimson scorer with 18 points, team captain George Harrington and reserveman Roger Rawden for fine performances...
...three who "resigned" from the NCC is David B. Cole '55, "Intelligence Officer," who was expelled from the club last March. As of last night, six former members of the League refused to follow the lead of Thompson, Cole, and Thomas C. Griffin...
...State Capitol at Richmond, where Robert E. Lee accepted his commission as commander of the rebel Virginia troops, the governors of four Southern states last week proclaimed a pattern of opposition to the Supreme Court of the U.S. Governors Thomas Stanley of Virginia, James Plemon Coleman of Mississippi, Marvin Griffin of Georgia and George Bell Timmerman Jr. of South Carolina jointly declared that the Federal Government had no power to prohibit the segregation of races in the public schools. (North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges attended as an "observer," did not sign the declaration because his state legislature...
Georgia's Griffin, most militant among the four, wanted to use stronger language. He insisted that interposition implied 1) a state's right to nullify federal laws, 2) a state governor's right to call out state forces to defend states' rights. "Without these essential provisions," said Griffin, "there is no interposition." But Griffin's reckless bluster was not yet the tone of the South's leaders. The other three governors reflected the painful tension that racks serious Southerners who are unable to face the prospect of desegregation and who are reluctant to defy...
...believe that most of America was shocked by the attitude of Georgia's Governor Marvin Griffin to the Sugar Bowl game in which a Negro will be on the team opposing Georgia Tech [Dec. 12]. For once the students demonstrated that there is nothing wrong with our youth, that the nation would be better off in their hands than in the hands of some of these peddlers of hate...