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Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, will continue to give History 61a, The Growth of the American Nation...
Perry was the last survivor of the University's famed literature-teaching triumvirate; the others were C. T. Copeland '82, former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and George L. Kittredge '86, Gurney Professor of English. The three were linked in the famous poem "Kitty and Copey and Bliss" by Lawrence McKinney...
...though no kin, got his nickname early in his career from Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, strong-willed Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from...
...Victor Gurney, a 17-year-old dockyard apprentice at Plymouth, told his girl that he loved her so much he could not live without her. She didn't believe him. So Victor went home one day last week, turned on the gas and died. "She will believe me now," he explained in a letter to his parents, scrawled across four pages in a cheap exercise book, "but it's a hard way of proving my love, don't you think...
...emergency" in Malaya, where Communist terrorists 1) had taken more than 3,000 lives; 2) were costing $150,000 a day to combat; 3) threatened tin and rubber production, Britain's best dollar earners. A few months before, Communists had ambushed and killed High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney, the topflight colonial administrator who had been sent out to put order into Malaya's civil service. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "The trouble [has been] not only murder, but mugwumpery...