Word: marietta
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...over the Ohio River, drove 31,000 people from their homes, cost, seven lives. The flood was one of the highest in Ohio River history, but it was no disaster. Thanks to control dams, Cincinnati's flood was confined mostly to its downtown riverfront lowlands. Other river towns-Marietta and Pomeroy, Ohio, Wheeling and Parkersburg, W.Va.-weren't so lucky...
...Life. In Marietta, Ga., jail officials sicked a pack of hounds on the trail of a couple of escaped prisoners, eventually found the crestfallen hounds tied to a tree. In Baltimore, William Ashby was charged with stealing a Doberman pinscher watchdog...
President Shimer and the dean of women were married in June. Last week, honeymooning in Canada, they heard from Marietta: the trustees wanted Dr. Shimer to resign. He had been a good administrator, the trustees said; the whole trouble was his "divorce and remarriage. A college president should be an inspiration. . . . An example is better than 'a precept...
...summer session signed a petition backing him. The petition referred to his previous career as national secretary of Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the American Scholar, as dean of the faculty at Bucknell and as a Navy lieutenant during the war. Said greying Professor T. D. Phillips of Marietta's physics department: "Marietta College needs some new trustees...
While Dr. Shimer and two of his professors argued with the trustees, students marched around the campus bearing placards: "We Want Shimer," "Let Him without Sin Cast the First Stone." Marietta's trustees were unyielding. Dr. Shimer at last agreed to resign...