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LAST WEEK, during Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta, the flag was lowered over the Georgia statehouse. As Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution tells the story, Governor Lester Maddox had objected and had kept the state offices open all day. But Georgia's Secretary of State had jurisdiction over the flag, and he ordered it flown at half mast...
Harvard's leading scorer was Tom McGill, with eight goals. John Bragg and Dave Paulison tallied seven and five goals respectively for the Crimson...
...World Journal Tribune. Most of them return to the city this week, along with some new ones, in the New York Daily Column, a tabloid devoted entirely to columns and features. Running to 24 pages and costing 10?, it will carry such columnists as Joseph Alsop, Joseph Kraft, Ralph McGill, William S. White and Walter Winchell, as well as Cartoonists Paul Conrad and Bill Mauldin. Published by Jerry Finkelstein, a longtime dabbler in local Democratic politics who also puts out the New York Law Journal and the Civil Service Leader, the Column plans an initial press...
...Washington Star was obviously resigned to Kennedy. "This was a ruthless performance," noted the paper, "but politics is a ruthless business." Echoed Atlanta Constitution Columnist Ralph McGill: "It will do no good to cry opportunist at Senator Kennedy. He is an opportunist-and he had better be! In politics, opportunism is the name of the game." San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Art Hoppe wrote an allegory in which the Gentle Knight (McCarthy) jousts the old king (L.B J) to a standstill, only to be shouldered aside by the Young Knight (R.F.K.) who has won over the crowd with words not deeds...
...next afternoon, using the rugby rules, the two teams played to a scoreless standoff. Boastful spectators attributed Harvard's successful adaptation to rugby to "Yankee ingenuity and aptitude." In a rematch the following year in Montreal, the Harvard team, sporting flashy new uniforms, trounced McGill soundly at the Canadians' own game...