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Already beginning to think of the future and their lives ahead of them, '27 stopped a moment to elect the most successful and popular of their number to permanent class posts and Commencement honors. Winners of the December elections were: Leo Francis Daley, First Marshal; Clement D. Coady, Second Marshal...

Author: By Michael Maccory, | Title: Athletic Rift with Nassau Marked Last Year for '27 | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

In a yukked, wandering-collection of jokes and jibes, Ivy Orator John B. Manning smirked his way through 15 minutes of allusions to exams, football weekends, and the faculty that brought occasional giggles from classmates. He described how a history major wrote on his exam that a triple entente was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Full Sever Quad Swelters, Listen to Ward, Manning | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

Trendex popularity rating of 13.7, unequaled by any other "inspirational" or intellectual show. TV columnists raved over it. Wrote New York World-Telegram & Sun's Harriet Van Home: "It's quite possible that he is the finest Catholic orator since Peter the Hermit." Berle's popularity rating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Microphone Missionary | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Last week Mr. Low Pressure himself arrived. Estes Kefauver, the man Kerr was out to beat, flew into Omaha with a bad cold, called the press, radio and television men around him. He was in this alone, explained Kefauver. He had little money, no machine. "I'm not an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: High v. Low | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

George Canning (1770-1827) was perhaps the most brilliant of Anthony Eden's predecessors. John Quincy Adams called him the "implacable and rancorous enemy of the U.S." Canning was rich, a brilliant orator, wrote poetry, and was trusted by almost no one. First named Secretary at 37, he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FAMED FOREIGN SECRETARIES | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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