Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota, ex-candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the U.S., ex-president of the University of Pennsylvania, ex-White House disarmament adviser, had wandered around Pennsylvania for weeks, trying to round up enough votes to win the G.O.P. primary for Governor and a second political wind. Last week came the primary test-and for Harold Stassen it was over almost before it began. Within three hours after the polls closed, he knew he had lost all of crucial Philadelphia's 58 wards, fallen behind by 88,000 votes to Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur...
That left Harold Stassen, once the hottest thing in Republican politics, out in the cold for what promised to be a tough general election. In November Republican McGonigle runs against Pittsburgh's powerful Democratic Mayor David Lawrence for Governor, and G.O.P. Representative Hugh Scott Jr. runs against incumbent Democratic Governor George Leader for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Ed Martin. For those who thought Stassen was through with politics, Childe Harold had a word of warning: "When God ends my life," said he. "that's when my career will...
...June 11, the 1958 Permanent Class Committee announced yesterday. The morning's program, presided over by Merom Brachman, First Marshal of the Class, will also include a serious speech to be delivered by Adam Clymer, Class Orator. The Ivy Oration, traditionally a humorous piece, will be given by Harold E. Fitzgibbons...
...Harold Louis) Humes Jr., 32, a founder of the little magazine Paris Review, has written a huge (755 pages) book which is the most indefatigable first novel of the year. Humes writes in a documentary, now-it-can-be-told style of a man who believes that he has the Government Printing Office at his tax-free disposal. Yet those who are prepared to do their own, rather than the novelist's job of winnowing a peck of wisdom out of a stockpile of fact will not be ill rewarded...
...respective fields of the several arts and sciences. Membership in the A.H.A. is open to all in sympathy with its viewpoint and objectives, and its strong representation in academic and professional circles constitutes impressive evidence of the important position which Naturalistic Humanism has attained in contemporary American thought. Harold R. Rafton...