Word: middleton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parboiled, and impaled upon a pole on London Bridge for several months for all to see; the Inns of Court, in which were trained not only centuries of English jurists but also six signers of the Declaration of Independence-Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Thomas M'Kean and William Paca; and finally the sweeping green of Runnymede Meadow, 20 miles west of London, where the embattled barons prevailed upon King John to sign Magna Carta in 1215 ("To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay, right or justice...
...There is nothing worse," contended Ohio's James Middleton Cox, "than an invertebrate publisher." Stocky, round-faced Jim Cox was one of the higher vertebrates in a generation of publishers that included such well-spined warriors as William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and Colonel Robert McCormick. As a journalist, he practiced his preachment that newspapers "should tell the truth as only intellectual honesty can discern the truth." As a politician, Democrat Cox was also notable for intellectual honesty. And he almost achieved the classic American cycle: born on a log-cabin farm, he got to be a Congressman...
Died. James Middleton Cox, 87, longtime newspaper publisher (Dayton Daily News, Miami Daily News, Atlanta Constitution, etc.), governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-21), and, with Franklin D. Roosevelt as running mate, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President in 1920; in Dayton (see PRESS...
...second concert in the Harvard Summer School series will be presented at Paine Hall on Tuesday at 8:30, when Catherine Aspinall, soprano, James Wood, clarinet, and George Zilzer and Robert Middleton, piano, will perform works by Brahms, Hindemith, Berg and Schubert. The concert is open to the public without charge, it has been announced...
Miss Aspinall, who has taught at Juilliard and Vassar College, will perform Schubert lieder and excerpts from Hindemith's song cycle "Das Marienleben." She will be accompanied by Robert Middleton...