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...Jefferson Coolidge '54 of Brookline and Leverett House yesterday was voted by his varsity football teammates to receive the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award as most valuable player on the 1953 squad...
...President has ever been subpoenaed before. Two court subpoenas were issued to President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 by Chief Justice John Marshall in the treason proceedings against Aaron Burr. Jefferson refused on both the grounds that no court could force him to "abandon superior duties," and because of "the necessary right of the President to decide . . . what papers . . . the public interests permit to be communicated." At least 16 Presidents, among them Washington, Coolidge and Hoover, have declined to supply Congress with certain requested information...
These relics were not meant as a vulgar insult to President Jefferson. They were zoological samplings from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,* of the U.S. Army, out to explore Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Every U.S. schoolboy has heard of them, but the seven volumes of their journals have long been the private browsing grounds of historical grubbers. Now Pulitzer Prize winner Bernard (Across the Wide Missouri) DeVoto has cut them down to everyman's size, restored the great adventure to the common reader...
...what soon may become the first black dominion in the British Commonwealth. Nkrumah came face to face with a starker imperialism. Cominform agents were infiltrating Sold Coast trade unions. Nkrumah, who got his education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, has borrowed ideas from Marx as well as from Jefferson (TIME, Feb. 9). He consulted his British advisers. They reminded him of what happened last month in British Guiana, carefully leaving the impression that a Communist movement in the Gold Coast would jeopardize the colony's demand for dominion status. Nkrumah thereupon suspended
...choice and order of words in Jefferson's writings enabled [biographers] to rebuild and portray his pattern of thinking, but for contemporary public figures, similar analysis is practically impossible. If, on the basis of letters and speeches, a scholar should try to analyze Franklin