Word: jay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...percent living on campus have a choice of three dormitories--Hartley, Livingston, and John Jay--which house a total of 1,600 men and whose physical appearance more closely resembles a modern apartment-house project than an Ivy League dormitory. As high as ten stories, the Halls are combined residences and student activities center: the fourth floor of John Jay is home of the undergraduate publication. With more than 500 students living in a single hall, the Dean's Office is presented with an almost insoluble parietal rules problem. But the Columbia administration has found the simplest solution--one which...
Little was seated in his office in John Jay Hall, overlooking the Van Am Quadrangle at Columbia University. Someone had hinted to him that his boys in Baby Blue might rate as seven-point favorites, or better, in Saturday's contest...
...nature of things, no occupier is beloved by the occupied, but John Jay McCloy, Wall Street lawyer and wartime Assistant Secretary of War, had earned the respect of the Germans. Last week the University of Bonn made him an honorary senator. A group of German trade unionists trooped into his Schloss bringing a porcelain figurine for "an understanding friend of the German workers." McCloy went to Berlin to collect an honorary engineering doctorate. Back in Bonn, he attended the 92nd meeting of the Allied High Commission (his British and French colleagues gave him a gold cigarette case). All the time...
...gospel. Motes encounters a series of characters even more bizarre than himself. There is Sabbath Lily Hawks, an adolescent degenerate who takes Motes as a temporary lover. Sabbath's daddy, a fake blind man, is one of Motes's competitors in street preaching; another is Onnie Jay Holy, whose religious interest runs mainly to the collection plate. Motes's career comes to a gruesome end when he deliberately blinds himself because a mean-spirited cop has pushed his unlicensed Essex over a cliff...
Second place to Higgins in the singles was the other finalist, Jay Hathaway of Holworthy. Collins and Cooke defeated the Weld North entry of Sonny Woodman and Bob Bruckner...