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...baseball squad will leave over the weekend for their opening game with the Quantico Marines at Quantico, Virginia. From there they will visit Richmond University, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, Catholic University, and Delaware. Coach Norman Shepard said that the team has had almost no outside practice so he would consider the trip a success if only the starting lineup for the season is determined by the end of the trip...
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...Commons' heavy oak doors clashed shut ahead of the Queen's messenger as they had for 300 years at that cry, in a traditional assertion of independence dating from the time that Charles I invaded the House of Commons with soldiers in an attempt to arrest Hampden, Pym and three other members in 1642. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked three times with his staff at the barred doors. When the doors swung open...
Died. Walter Hampden, 75, stage, screen and television actor, famed as one of the century's topflight interpreters of high romantic drama; of a stroke; in Hollywood. Hampden scored his first major critical success at 26 in England, as a substitute for Sir Henry Irving in Hamlet. His touring repertory company (formed in 1908) brought him fame as one of the most versatile Shakespearean actors of his day. He turned to character roles in the movies (All This and Heaven Too, Sabrina) and radio, but was unhappy about having to adapt his style to modern low-key scripts. "Continuation...
...early years-because they wanted to show the root causes of their heroine's own neurosis. The curtain went up on Dorothea as a nine-year-old drudge doing chores for her invalid mother (who was 20 years older than her minister-husband). Before a shabby house in Hampden. Me., neighbor children chant tauntingly: "Dorothea can't play." Not until she is 14 does the play show Dorothea happy, living with "My Aunt Sarah, who was my first real friend." In Boston, at 23, Dorothea Dix is engaged, but proves so reluctant to give up work...