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WITCHCRAFT. In 1921, British Anthropologist Margaret Murray advanced the theory that witchcraft was basically a vestige of the nature worship of Europe's pagan days. Scholars have challenged her theory, but many of today's "white witches" take her suggestion and imitate pagan ways rather than satanic witchcraft. Generally, white witches derive their presumed power from beneficent forces of nature and use it in an effort to heal, resolve disputes and achieve good for others. Such benevolent magic may also include defensive spells against...
Still, it will be an incredibly trying job to select 14 men out of 57, a fact that is not lost on Parker. Among the hopefuls, he'll have the engineroom from nearly every major college eight, with the exception of Brown. Navy's Chuck Munns, Dave Murray and John Kiser, who rowed in last year's Eastern championship boat, will be there, as will Calvin Coffey, Bill Backman and Pete Karassik from the Northeastern boat that won the Sprint title a month ago. The majority of the Washington varsity that roared through an unbeaten Spring only to fall meekly...
Judge Frank J. Murray found the offer unsatisfactory, and Popkin was handcuffed and removed to a detention cell in the Federal building to await placement in the Charles Street Jail. His only reading material there, he said later, was an old Life magazine article about Daniel Ellsberg...
...Ezra Pound. Increasingly it serves to inform a widespread audience about both the U.S. and the world. It is read with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss, 48, who was the last managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune, talks of a "mid-Atlantic viewpoint" that implies a degree of detachment from both the U.S. and Europe...
...hand, men like Lewis and Mortimer believed in class struggle, meaning that the labor movement had to be united and independent of corporate and government domination. On the other hand, la group led by such men as Homer Martin, Sydney Hillman and Philip Murray thought that labor's fight was merely a struggle for power which could be best accomplished using already established channels. Hillman was FDR's labor lieutenant, always trying to catch the President's ear. He was forced on more than one occassion to order strikers back to work when FDR or business interests so pressured...