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Freshman Cathy States finished tenth in Saturday's slalom competition and seventh in Sunday's giant slalom. Junior Lenni Wilson captured seventh in the slalom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Skiers 4th at WISC Meet Despite Injuries | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

...after the U.S. Constitution took effect, when New York City's Society of Tammany adopted its own constitution as a superpatriotic club for 100%-pure Americans. For its patron, the society chose a man whose American credentials could not be questioned: Tammany, sachem (pronounced say-chem) of the Lenni-Lenape (Delaware Indians), from whom legends glowed like beams from an August moon. Tammany (it was said) invented the canoe, discovered corn, beans, crabapples and tobacco (for use in destroying fleas). His most heroic feat was in wrestling the Evil Spirit for 50 days. Finally Tammany upended the Evil Spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SACHEMS & SINNERS AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF TAMMANY HALL | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...does well in a none too flashy role. Elaine Tilson acquits herself nobly in the slightly ludicrous role of the attractive young woman who sneaks into the stodgy hero's room at night to hear him read Tennyson and makes a pretty direct plea for his affections. But Francesea Lenni as Fulton's daughter, the center and cause of most of his troubles, is singularly awkward and amateurish in the rendition of most of her lines...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

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