Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working in an office aboard Nelson's old flagship Victory) has tried to chart a sounder course. His seamanship may be better and his course truer, but when the voyage ends he has made the same port where other biographers have tied up. The Nelson who strides down the gangplanks of The Durable Monument is less legendary and more human than the Nelson of earlier biographies, but he is still the great captain of Britain's long and memorable naval history...
...Liberal Union Film Series will present a special showing of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" on May 3, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, HLU Public Relations Director, announced last night. This is the first film to be supplied by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. since they agreed on March 22 to renew HLU's location approval and resume supplying them with 16mm films...
When properly used by the individual, competition brings out the full efforts of the individual to achieve his goal, they explained, but when misplaced it may cause him to put "will to win" ahead of his actual goal. The aim of the study will be to see how such drives can be modified and put to good use by the right kind of education...
...March 15 to accept a committee recommendation to withdraw the measure. Only expert parliamentary maneuvering by Senator Melley saved the bill in the upper chamber. However, by delaying renewal of the discussion until this week, the House has given Toomey time to strengthen his forces, and another vote may be close. Though the "Citizens Committee" has only one known member, Miss Spencer, and is not registered officially as a lobby at the State House, it may be able to change many votes during this well-timed breather...
William R. Polk '51 will witness tomorrow the opening of the Salonika trial for the murder of his brother, Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent George Polk, in Salonika last May...