Word: helpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home...
...withdrawing? In Washington, Attorney General William P. Rogers explained that there was no federal jurisdiction, i.e., the lynchers had not crossed a state line. Parker had been abducted and killed in Mississippi-and prosecution belonged to the state. To help the state make its case, the FBI laid out the shocking story of what had happened. About 35 men had met at a farm outside Poplarville, but lynch justice was not their immediate aim. Rather, they were looking for ways to prevent a crowning indignity: the courtroom questioning by Parker's Negro attorney on the sexual attack...
...play is still pretty funny-the tale of a misogynist farmer who keeps trying to get rid of a rich Athenian lad in love with his daughter. (Solution: the farmer falls down his well, is rescued with the help of the swain, grudgingly hands over his daughter.) Funniest part is the traffic of devout Athenians to the temple of Pan near the farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author...
...criticisms of them: freedom from partisan editors and publishers and freedom of information. Drew Pearson, writing anonymously back in the Thirties, called for a purge of "business and money-drawer domination" of the American press. Harry Truman used to tell White House reporters that he realized they couldn't help the slant which their editors made them put into their copy. Adlai Stevenson favored the term, "one-party press." And, to meet the other complaint, the press now has a Congressional subcommittee to hear its demands for greater liberalization of classification rules...
...sharp departure from the white-haired house mothers who have traditionally graced the demitasse tables of the Radcliffe Quad. When the David B. Bevingtons move in to Moors Hall next September, the Cliffe community will be able to welcome them with greater equanimity. "The Browns have been a big help to us," Bevington observed. "We're glad not to be pioneers...