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Poets & Players. When Andrew Carnegie offered the medical school $1,000,000 in 1913, the Methodist bishops sensed an impending loss of control and vetoed the gift. The school's Board of Trust won independence in the Tennessee Supreme Court, settled down in the spirit of uncrowded excellence that...
Referring to the resignation, President Pusey said, "It is quite understandable that, in view of his recent illness, Dean Teele should wish to relinquish the arduous and unremitting pressures of the office he as so ably filled for the past seven years." Pusey added "His impending departure from the University...
"It is laborious, but we advance," was the word sent to Charles de Gaulle last week by his top negotiator, Louis Joxe, Minister for Algerian Affairs. In a secret meeting place near the Swiss border, Joxe's French delegation and that of the Moslem F.L.N., headed by Foreign Minister...
Capitol Hill's cavernous Senate caucus room was alive with a sense of impending drama. Newsmen swarmed, all 250 public seats were filled early, and standees wedged themselves along the sidelines. All had come to see what promised to be the most exciting congressional hearing since Robert Kennedy, as...
Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges has served quietly and colorlessly as an administrator and as the New Frontier's link with business; the Administration expects him to distinguish himself in the impending fight to liberalize foreign trade.