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...Merk, Gurney professor of History and Political Science, will retire in June, he has taught American History here for 39 years, and plans to engage in research and writing after his retirement...
Previous holders of the Gurney Professorship have included George Lyman Kittredge and Fred Norris Robinson...
Douglas Bush, professor of English and a leading authority on Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature, has been named Gurney Professor of English literature, succeeding Hyder E. Rollins, who retired last July...
...decision was first taken last fortnight by a three-to-two vote, with Republicans Chan Gurney and Harmar Denny in the minority. Ordinarily, the board would then have waited about a month to announce it in a formal order, but word quickly leaked to the "corridor walkers"-the airline lobbyists who have been putting tremendous heat on CAB. Suddenly, Northeast's ordinarily sluggish shares (only 249,600 traded in all of 1955) zoomed; in just one day 24,000 were traded, with the stock jumping from 9½ to 12½. Finally, as the rumor hit front pages...
...Briton Hadden, had asked advertising agency friends for advice on the art layout for their first cover. During this consultation, they decided to use the portrait of a personality outstanding in the current news-a TIME tradition ever since. The figure in the news that week was Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime Republican Speaker of the House, who at 86 was retiring after 23 terms in Congress. One of the agency friends knew that Obie had already drawn Cannon. A hurried exchange of phone calls followed, and genial Obie readily agreed to lend the new magazine his Joe Cannon...