Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, has resigned his Mastership after ten years to devote greater time to a treatise he is writing in collaboration with Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English; and President Conant has appointed Leigh Hoadley, professor of Zoology, in his stead...
Bennington College lost its founder and president last week. At 50, pioneering President Robert Devore Leigh resigned, he said in effect, because he had grown too old for the job. He thinks no college should be "shackled by executive leadership gradually growing stale, feeble or lacking in initiative...
...succeed Dr. Leigh, the trustees elected without ado a member of Bennington's faculty, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, 42, economist and labor mediator. Dr. Leigh will join the staff of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
Gnarled, dimple-chinned Fred Mitchell, 45, was watching his sheep with a crook and a sharp-muzzled sheep dog one clear, shriveling-cold January night at the Home Farm outside Abbots Leigh village near Bristol. The sirens screamed at 5 o'clock, and Shepherd Mitchell was immediately surrounded by a blaze of 20th-century horror. Incendiaries fired his straw-and-wattle lambing pens, sheltering 34 ewes and lambs. High explosives followed the incendiaries and scared the wits out of the sheep dog, who promptly went A.W.O.L. for 24 hours. Alone, Mitchell fought the fire till the flames crackled near...
...material, it is unfortunate that Producer Alexander Korda chose to place great emphasis on love interest, consequently making "That Hamilton Woman" into a rather dull romance with bright spots that are few and far between. In the picture, the fat Emma undergoes a change in the person of Vivien Leigh who is as beautiful as you could expect, and who makes love quite correctly. Laurence Olivier as Lord Nelson is scarcely more than adequate, although at times he gives indication of genuine acting ability. However, honors for acting go to the supporting roles of Sir William Hamilton and the phlegmatic...