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...Walter Bigelow Rosen Chair of Music, established this spring, has been awarded to Thompson. Among the works of the well-knonwn contemporary composer are two symphonies, a choral work, "Testament of Freedom," based on the writings of Thomas Jefferson, suites for chamber ensembles, and other orchestral compositions...
...natural state, perhaps its only admirers were 75 Levantine camels, imported by Jefferson Davis, then U.S. Secretary of War, "for Army transportation and other military purposes." They preferred the "greasewood's" noisome leaves to the lushest grazing grass...
Polls are located in Widener, Harkness Commons, Littauer, Emerson, Fogg, Jefferson, Peabody Museum and the Chemistry Laboratory...
...Long & Short. At week's end Harry Truman himself showed his party how he proposed to play politics in his fashion. He chose Washington's top ceremonial rite for faithful, fat-cat Democrats, the $100-a-plate Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, to beg "every Democrat to put patriotism above politics." Not once did he mention MacArthur by name, but he got a fine laugh by ad-libbing a reference to MacArthur's report to him at Wake Island: "It has been categorically stated that Russia will not come in if we bomb Manchuria. That statement was made...
...There, young Irénée, amazed at the high price and low quality of gunpowder, raised $6,740 with his father's help to buy a 95-acre farm on Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, built Du Pont's first gunpowder mills. From President Thomas Jefferson, who had known the family in France, came the first order for the U.S. Army. Du Pont powder hurled the Navy's shells against the Barbary pirates in 1805, was used in the War of 1812, the War against Mexico, and the Civil War (the Monitor fired Du Pont powder...