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...Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. '54 of Leverett House and Brookline, has become the first recipient of the newly-established William J. Bingham Award...
...canny State Chairman John M. Bailey, and in a January poll, he ran ahead of his closest competitor, ex-Congressman Abraham A. Ribicoff. But while Bowles pondered, the politicians lost patience; while he played Hamlet, Ribicoff played Romeo, wooed and won party support. Even Bailey switched. At a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Hartford, Ribicoff got a bigger hand for standing up and bowing than Bowles got for making a speech...
...Capitol Hill," pontificated the Times. "American opinion, in spite of the cold war, in spite of its profound antiCommunism, is still firmly pacific, and, far from straining at the leash, will fight only when all reasonable chances of negotiation have failed. Peace is still, as in Jefferson's day, the American people's passion . . . By rejecting premature commitments in Indo-China, public opinion has overtaken the party cries...
...three speakers made similar proposals as alternatives to present investigating practices. Both Griswold and Jefferson B. Fordham, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, suggested that Congress appoint an independent commission such as that now investigating the Oppenheimer case. This commission would take over the duties presently carried out by the Velde, Jenner, and McCarthy Committee...
...Washington was a Republican town, and, therefore, there was no Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. At least that was the explanation Democrats gave themselves last week as they sat down to the 1954 Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner-in Washington. In the Mayflower Hotel, ballroom, 1,450 Democrats, each of them $100 the poorer for the privilege, agreed that Republicans know nothing about running a government...