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Harrison alone deserves the laurel. He makes a charming and surprisingly impressive Caesar-though some may doubt that the most prodigious public energy in human history can be portrayed as the Acheson of antiquity...
...spring proceeded. Baron Kurtvon Tippelskirch, German consul General in Boston, placed a laurel wreath in Memorial Church to honor the four German Harvardmen who had died in the first World War. A day before Hitler had announced the scraping of the Versailles Treaty and the creation of a new German army...
...time when so many unkind (perhaps both deserved and undeserved) things are being said about Mississippi, I welcomed your coverage of Miss Leontyne Price's homecoming concert in Laurel [Feb. 8]. I wish you could have given it more space, because it was one of the finest examples of love and fellowship ever expressed among the races. We white people were only too glad to sit on the aisle floor to hear this gifted and great person return home and sing to us all. She not only received ovations; she brought tears to our eyes, and none...
Only a few miles from the row over integration at the University of Mississippi, home fires burned brightly for Negro Soprano Leontyne Price, 35. Returning to her native city of Laurel (pop. 27,889) after a third triumphant season with the Metropolitan Opera, she drew a standing ovation from an informally integrated audience of 2,000 whites and Negroes at a benefit concert for St. Paul's Methodist Church. Glowed Leontyne: "This is the only place where I can be at peace with myself, except Rome. New York was meant for work. Here at home...
...program called it the $125,000 Washington, D.C. International, and 13 thoroughbreds from nine nations pranced to the post at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. But to the fans, it was strictly a domestic affair, a test between the three top U.S. horses: Jack Dreyfus' sprinter, Beau Purple; Mrs. Richard C. duPont's great gelding. Kelso; and Jack Price's millionaire colt, Carry Back. Ill-mannered catcalls greeted the Russian and Japanese entries, and Britain's Pardao went off at 108-to-1 odds...