Word: milton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first met Robert Sherwood at Milton Academy where we were preparing for Harvard . . . Our collaboration in college came about by accident. I was banging out a melody at the piano, one afternoon, when Sherwood dropped in. He listened for a few minutes and I turned to him and said, "All I need is a lyric." Without so much as a flicker, he grabbed some paper and began drafting the rhythm on which to base his lines. I have heard of rapid composers but I doubt if any other American lyricist could equal the speed of Sherwood, or, for that matter...
...Varsity squash team defeated the University Club 4 to 1 yesterday at Hemenway for their second straight win in the Boston Metropolitan League. The Varsity's only loss came at the number two slot, where Capt. Pete Milton lost in three straight games. The Crimson's next match is against Princeton, here, Friday...
...aimless and frustrating year for the Senator. The Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, the National Labor Relations Board, the United States guided missile program, the Administration's farm policy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Milton Eisenhower and a cherished McCarthy enemy, Harold Stassen, all came in for their share of criticism, but somehow the public and the press failed to sit up and take notice as they had done only a few months before. With his committee chairmanship gone in the Democratic victory in 1954 McCarthy was just another minority member of the Senate Committee on Government Operations...
...great deal of interest. It is excellent." The letter was signed by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "This man," shouted Hubert Humphrey, "should be fired-now-this afternoon!" Immediately a mooing chorus of farm-bloc Senators raised their protests to the glass roof of the chamber. Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Francis Case of South Dakota clamored to join Humphrey's attack. Later, even calm old Walter George thought that Secretary Benson had "lost his usefulness...
...comparison of scores between two matches with the Harvard Club's "A" league team clearly shows the varsity's development. Early in the season Heckscher was the only man strong enough to win. Last week only captain Pete Milton lost...