Word: parente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swarthmore College, Alger Hiss, preparing for his first public address since his release from federal prison (TIME, Dec. 6, 1954), had the welcome mat pulled out from under him. His invitation, issued by the Swarthmore chapter of the Students for Democratic Action, was vetoed by S.D.A.'s parent Americans for Democratic Action. Explained an A.D.A. official: ". . . We wouldn't invite convicted gangsters and dope peddlers to address us. We don't see why we should invite a convicted traitor...
Harvard may, in fact, be regarded as a foster parent of intercollegiate boxing. It began in 1920 when the Crimson's famous football Coach, Dick Harlow, was beginning his career at Pennsylvania. At the time water gun fights and dormitory riots were supposedly a fad at this Ivy university and Harlow suggested intercollegiate boxing as a possible alternative to the disturbances. The story is, of course, that the idea worked and an interest in the sport replaced the dormitory fights. At any rate, the first college meet was held at Penn against Colgate...
Logic, however, is one thing; feelings are quite another. What parent would have the nerve to call a kidnaper's bluff-to play, in effect, a game of poker with his own child's life? Ransom! is the story of a man who had the nerve. Based on a popular television play by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum, it is a fairly conventional thriller that says, in substance, something much better than conventional about the truth, and how dreadful is the operation by which it makes a man free...
After Adlai entered Princeton, mother took a house there-which he thought "the cruelest thing a parent could...
Less than five years later, however, the first of several splinter groups broke off from the Advocate to form a new publication, causing the parent magazine to dub itself "Mother Advocate." This earliest offspring, like all the succeeding ones, was spawned for one basic reason, the Advocate's interests had become oriented exclusively in one direction, causing a few editors to grow disgruntled. The magazine's rabid interest in reform drove some of its more flippant members to form the Lampoon in 1871, leaving the Advocate more of a newspaper than anything else. In 1873, however, the CRIMSON appeared...