Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Truman tour covered the rooms that are ordinarily opened to the public (that morning 7,263 people filed through the White House for a first-hand look at what the TV audience saw that afternoon). As a guide should, the President spiced his information with folksy stories. The best...
Noted poet Wallace Stevens '00 will give a reading of his own work at 4:30 p.m. today in New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund. The reading is free and open to the public.
This doesn't mean that we advocate that people who have something to say should yank unwilling students out of bed and force them into captive audience as you imply these men did last week. However, we do defend the right of such visitors to knock on our doors and...
For what was left of his life, Gouverneur Morris savored the "conjugal pleasures" which he had only sampled before. A month before he died, at 65, he wrote to a friend that he still felt "the enthusiasms of inexperience and the gaiety of youth."
* Among Morris' direct descendants is great-grandson Gouverneur Morris, novelist and short-story writer. Newbold Morris, recently fired as Harry Truman's special corruption hunter, is a great-great-great-nephew, as is his brother, George L. K. Morris, "concretionist" painter and a onetime editor and angel of...