Word: peters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wisconsin's Governor Julius Peter ("Julius the Bust") Heil, who has not made a notable success of governing his own State, astonished the nation by implicitly criticizing his neighbor, Michigan's good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson. Referring to the Chrysler automobile workers' strike, Governor Heil declared: "You've got to use strong methods. I would like to be the Governor of Michigan today...
When the Romanovs 'came to the throne 300 years ago they were "provincial nobodies." They managed, in their time, to produce three colossal figures (Alexander I, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great), one kind man (Alexander II, who freed the serfs, was killed by a bomb). The rest were monsters, comic grotesques, mental cases, or blank nonentities: calf-eyed Mihaïl, who died of melancholia; Elizabeth, the hard-drinking, nominally virgin queen whose beer-barrel figure enabled her to pass off her pregnancies as "indigestion"; infantile, impotent Peter III and insane Paul, "as ugly and misshapen...
...Peter the Great "was only great in driving force . . . probably the greatest beast who ever wore a crown." When his wife took a lover Peter had his head chopped off and placed in her bedroom preserved in alcohol. He also "developed a taste for whipping young girls in their teens." Gerhardi thinks him far less responsible than history has made him for "hacking out a window into Europe"; gives evidence of his cowardice in battle, his lack of military talent...
These effective for the first half of the academic year follow: University scholarship to Kenneth E. Barraclough, Durham, N. H. University fellowship to Peter Viereck, New York City...
Robert N. White '41, reliable distance swimmer on Coach Hal Ulon's tank squad, was stricken with appendicitis and operated on last Monday. He is recovering in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and is expected to be ready for intercollegiate competition after Christmas...