Word: nicholases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The boys picked up the phrase from a Brooklyn street squabble. They turned it over in their minds a bit, then, with piano, guitar and bass, tooled up a tune. By nightfall, "Nicholas, don't be so ridic'lus" was a song:
Nicholas, don't be so ridic'lus You're so suave, so debonair Full of verve and savoir faire But I'm inclined to think that You're a square-so there!...
Trainer Kimmy Cox was in front of Dillion Field House calling calisthenie signals, but only the straining figures of Tom Sullivan, Nicholas Athens, Pete Leavitt, and a bespectacled youth with a pea-shooter seemed to be manifesting any interest.
Greek leftists accused Zervas and the reactionary Greek Government of inventing the plot as an excuse to jail their opposition. But after the raids, Nicholas Zachariades, top Greek Communist, ended any lingering doubts about Communist intentions. From his hiding place he sent a message to the Communist paper Rizospastis, calling...
Whether a first-rank scholar is really needed to run a modern U.S. university, or whether an able administrator sensitive to the rights and duties of scholars might do as well or better, was at least a debatable question. But Columbia was breaking no precedents in appointing General Eisenhower.* Robert...