Word: hannah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given to M.S.U. two years ago by the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. Value of the land and the 125-room Wilson mansion: about $15 million. When the Wilsons added another $2,000,000 to the gift, astute M.S.U. President John Hannah appointed Vice President Durward B. Varner, 42, as chancellor and gave him the job of turning Oakland into a dream college. Varner recruited 25 of the nation's best young teachers (average age: 33) as the nucleus of his faculty; almost all are Ph.D.s v. an average...
...angry Southern Senators and Congressmen who were tipped in advance about the report. Commission Member John Battle disagreed with the "nature and tenor" of the report, said that in large part it was "an argument in advocacy of preconceived ideas in the field of race relations." In answer, Chairman Hannah reminded that racial discrimination was a problem "that is native to neither North nor South. It is, rather, a dilemma that concerns all Americans...
...Headed by Michigan State University's President John A. Hannah, its members (three each from the North and South) include ex-Governors John S. Battle of Virginia and Doyle E. Carlton of Florida, Notre Dame University's President Theodore M. Hesburgh, Dean Robert G. Storey of the Southern Methodist Law School, and former Dean of Howard University Law School George M. Johnson...
...perhaps the gayest capital in the world, and Paul Tillich was no stranger to night life. During one of the art students' fancy-dress balls, at which he turned up in a cutaway and turban, he met a handsome girl in long green silk stockings, named Hannah Werner. As Tillich put it recently: "Things went on from there...
Gathering Darkness. Things went on to marriage and a three-month walking trip through Italy, where Art Student Hannah introduced her fascinated husband to the wonders of medieval and Renaissance painting and architecture. "For years afterward," says Tillich, "I dreamed of the 24 hours we spent in Ravenna." Tillich built up an increasingly fruitful career of writing and lecturing; between 1924 and 1933, he taught theology and philosophy at the universities of Marburg, Dresden, Leipzig and Frankfurt. But darkness was closing in: "Gradually life changed around us, became rigid and timid...