Word: jenison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intricate, formal combat in Michigan State College's Jenison Field House seemed a far cry from the back-alley swordplay of François Villon or the duels-to-the-death of the Three Musketeers. The 20th-century field of honor was limited to the narrow boundaries of a long rubber mat, leaving little room for spectacular derring-do. Four judges and a director hovered around each bout to call the touches and check on fencing protocol. The undergraduates who crossed blades in the National Collegiate Fencing Championships last week could be sure no opponent would blind them with...
...more candidates take a position like that of Illinois' Republican Candidate Edward Jenison, a formerly staunch Taftman, who is basing his campaign on the Eisenhower popularity, has plastered Springfield with signs reading: "Help Ed, Help Ike, Help You." And California's Mrs. Harriet Enderle is only one of the many Democrats who is running on a Help Ike platform. Says she, in her campaign against G.O.P. Representative James Utt: "I have sought to persuade the voters of this district that I would be of more help to the Republican President than Mr. Utt. If that's riding...
...Those who held out: Allen, Jenison, Simpson (Ill.); Crawford, Hoffman (Mich.); Gwinn (N.Y.); Nicholson (Mass.); Rich (Pa.); Sanborn (Idaho); Werdel, Phillips (Calif.)-all of whom would qualify as diehard Republicans; and Communist-Liner Marcantonio...