Word: knights
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DIED. Charlotte Henry, 67, flaxen-haired Hollywood heroine, who starred in such prewar entertainments as Babes in Toyland, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and, most notably, the 1933 Alice in Wonderland, in which she played Alice to Cary Grant's Mock Turtle, Gary Cooper's White Knight and W.C. Fields' Humpty Dumpty; of a brain tumor; in San Diego...
...Phoenix-based firm that owned the Cincinnati Enquirer (current circ. 190,000) and Oakland (Calif.) Tribune (current circ. 165,000), seven television stations, twelve radio stations and extensive outdoor-advertising interests. Among chains, Gannett is the longtime leader in number of papers, and last year passed the 55-paper Knight-Ridder chain in weekday circulation. Gannett's total is now 3,580,000 (vs. Knight-Ridder's 3,492,000), more than double that of a decade...
Earlier in the month, when two other scholars--Lawrence W. Levine, professor of history at University of California-Berkeley, and Franklin W. Knight, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University--rejected appointment offers solely in Afro-Am, members of the executive committee which had recommended the three appointments said Huggins had turned down the same offer also. But when the University agreed to Huggins' request to be appointed in both Afro-Am and History, he reconsidered...
Franklin W. Knight, professor of history at Johns Hopkins, and Lawrence W. Levine, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, both decided last week not to accept tenure in Afro-Am. Nathan I. Huggins, Columbia professor of history, is reported close to declining the position, Freeman and Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and another committee member, said yesterday...
Ricardo A. Guthrie '80, an Afro-Am concentrator, said yesterday, "It is a mistake for the executive committee to rely too heavily on these three people. Levine, Knight and Huggins represent only a small part of what the department is geared...