Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-two Yale students arrested in the March snowball riots were granted a reprieve Saturday by the City of New Haven, which postponed hearings until June 1. The move came ostensibly as the result of the city's desire to improve already shaky town-gown relations...
Last year, the varsity upset a powerful Eli squad down at New Haven to take the Eastern League title. They defend this laurel now without the services of Dale Junta and Larry Sears,--first two singles men and the first doubles pair--who have both graduated. Yale, on the other hand, has its top six men back intact, and it will take another magnificent effort like last May's for Barnaby's team to overcome the New Haven powerhouse...
...Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold struggled to patch up relations between his students and New Haven cops-askew after last month's snowball-and-night-stick war (TIME, March 30)-an old grad unkindly recalled some carefree words addressed to a student mob in 1951, less than a year after Griswold had taken office. Said the president, in the green days of administrative youth: "I love a riot . . . I loved them when I was an undergraduate . . . I can yield to no one the record of smashed light bulbs...
...Swastika. What seems clear is that New Haven police charged and swung their nightsticks with unnecessary relish as they tried to disperse a crowd that probably did not need dispersing. One Yalie got an eight-stitch dent in his skull, and a young, chesterfield-wearing history teacher was arrested and then, he claims, punched in the kidneys. A fire truck showed up, hosed down a dormitory that had a swastika and yacht flags in its windows. By the end of the brawl, 16 Yalemen, most of them the worse for wear, had been wagoned off to police headquarters-where they...
Died. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, 56, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and Cyrus H. (the reaper) McCormick, World War II WAC sergeant who later bought a $900 blue-and-buff colonial uniform to wear in July 4 parades; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...