Word: mogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young students from Britain, members of the Oxford University debating team, stood one evening last week, outside the Norfolk State Prison Colony, 15 miles southwest of Boston, and gazed up at the big concrete walls. "I have one ancestor who was a murderer," said Richard Taverne. Said William Rees-Mogg: "My only criminal ancestor was a bigamist in the 18th Century." After delivering themselves of these genealogical notes, the two Britons marched up to the gatehouse and went inside. After a 2½-month undefeated tour of U.S. campuses, the Oxonians were making one of their last U.S. appearances-this...
Murdo the Robber, primed by the A.M.A., was also armed with statistics, all proving what a dismal failure a socialized health plan would be, compared to laissez-faire U.S. medicine. Oxford's Rees-Mogg was ready with an answer. "The best preventive medicine," said he, "is early diagnosis. The best way to encourage people to do this is to make medical services free. People will go to the doctors when they do not have...
...arguments, the Oxonians had to admit that their worthy opponents were worthier than they had expected ("They're extraordinarily good, you know," said Rees-Mogg). The judges-former Governor William S. Flynn of Rhode Island, Justice Harold Williams of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School-apparently agreed. Their unanimous decision: victory for Norfolk -the first U.S. team to defeat the gentlemen from Oxford...
...Britishers, William Rees-Mogg and Richard Taverne, won a unanimous decision from Steven R. Petschek '53 and Jay R. Nussbaum '52, before a crowd of 300 in Paine Music Hall. The judges were L. C. S. Barber, British Consul in Boston, Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe and professor of History, and Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor...
Taverne and Rees-Mogg danced gay conversational circles around their game opponents, pausing occasionally from banter to make a shrewd point...