Word: janning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson veteran Edward Harding '58 paired with E. P. Kingsly III to win a close doubles contest from Jan Baily and Jeremy Hogben. In the other doubles event, Devens and Charles Stockton '32 trounced Gunnery and Murray Glover. The remaining doubles matches will be played today...
...Biggs is ready to play," said an authoritative voice and everyone trooped to folding chairs facing the organ. The notes struck, proud and singing, from the compact, shiny instrument as Biggs played works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (appropriately enough), Franck, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Bach...
Massive Resistance. In Virginia's constitutional referendum on Jan. 9, 1956, the amendment carried, 304,154 to 146,164, and the Gray Plan had outlived its usefulness. Poor Governor Stanley, who never quite seemed to get the word, hailed the vote as a "mandate" for the Gray Plan. But Harry Byrd interpreted it as a mandate for something much tougher. He promptly warned the legislature to go slow in enacting the Gray Plan's provisions. In February, Byrd laid down the law with an outright demand for "massive resistance" against any sort of integration. And in July, Byrd...
...duties until last month, is now stumping California from border to border and just such stumping won him his senatorial seat over big-name Democrat Will Rogers Jr. in 1946. Knowland lacks Pat Brown's charm, but he knows what he thinks and says what he knows (TIME, Jan. 14, 1957)-and just such a reputation won him the senatorial nomination on both tickets in 1952. Conceivably, California's independent-minded voters, after a look at both candidates, might see more virtue in the man who can make up his mind as compared with the fellow who wants...
...five times as many Catholic priests, nuns and brothers in Latin America as there are Protestant churchmen and women, the Catholics must tend their already established flocks, while Protestants can put more time and money into missionary work. Protestant missionaries supply remote outposts with their own airlines (TIME, Jan. 6), run their own radio networks, gave away free nearly 5,000,000 Spanish-and Portuguese-language Protestant Bibles in 1956 alone...