Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vacancy on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Canal Zone), President Eisenhower last week tapped a New Orleans corporation lawyer whose facility at law helped Ike clinch the 1952 Republican nomination. To the Senate for confirmation he sent the name of John Minor Wisdom, 51, Louisiana's Republican national committeeman. A lifetime Republican but no politician until 1951, Lawyer Wisdom (specialty: antitrust legislation) recruited Louisiana Republicans and Democrats alike for Ike, saw a delegation packed with Taft supporters picked for the convention. Carrying his battle to Chicago, Wisdom argued credentials with...
...Tuesday's opening program David Gross '60 will perform as the feature work the first movement from Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor, Opus 57, the Apassionata. Other words will be: Bach, Prelude and Fugue in F minor; Brahms, Intermezzo in E, Opus 118 # 2. Landon Young '58 of Adams House will perform Schumann's Symphonic Etudes on Tuesday, April...
...England and smuggled in and out of about 25 houses in 18 weeks, wrote Reporter Lucas, constantly changing her hair style and clothes. Maura told him that she would stay in "this Protestant underground" until May, when she would become 16 and in British law no longer a minor...
...story. It received heavy play in the Montreal newspapers, particularly the evening Herald, which has been waging an indignant anti-hoodlum editorial campaign. Riggan, onetime Birmingham Post-Herald reporter who has been a TIME correspondent in Canada since 1953, was troubled less by his injuries (which were minor) than by regret that he had not made it a better story. "What rankles most," he joked, "is reading the accurate reports that 'Riggan's yells' frightened off the thugs. It would have been more gratifying if the stories could have read: 'The thugs fled under a hail...
...retail sales.) The tapes his father definitely rejected, says Walter Toscanini, will never be released, although they will be preserved at Riverdale as historical documents. But of the 350 hours of Toscanini tapes to work from, roughly half are in a "maybe" category: papa liked them except for minor flaws. Record buyers may eventually hear some portions of them. "Sometimes," says Walter, "my father's standards may have been too high...