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...first settlement of Captain Ar thur Phillip-redcoats and canary-yellow clad convicts-nearly starved to death. A relief ship came with food and news of the French Revolution Says Moorehead: "What did they make of the terror? Were the convicts delighted that the underdog was having its day? Did any of them pause to reflect that in France, the most sophisticated country on earth, one could watch the guillotine at work in the public streets with sadistic indifference, while here in New Holland the aborigine, the most primitive of all human beings, burst into tears when he watched...
...comes to the Law School. Yarmolinsky would reportedly be named a "senior member." Others reportedly under consideration for senior memberships include Ernest R. May, professor of History; Phillip E. Areeda '51, professor of Law; and Carl Kaysen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor, of Political Economy...
Associate Managing Edite Crimson: H.U.C.; Phillip Brooks House Tutors Committee; Hasty Pudding Winthrop House Committee; Potary Foundation Fellowship...
Died. Rear Admiral Allen Phillip Calvert, 64, World War II commander of the PT-boat flotilla in which President Kennedy skippered the PT 109, for which he got the Distinguished Service Medal, later Deputy Chief of General MacArthur's planning staff; of heart disease; in Oakland, Calif...
Stewart reluctantly gets caught up in the war when the youngest of his six strapping sons (Phillip Alford) is captured by Yankee troops, later to be snatched from death's jaws by his former playmate, a freed slave. The rest of the family goes searching for him, enduring separation, fear and wanton slaughter, before they return home just in time to ride off for Sunday services at the village church. There, naturally, the lost son hobbles in on a makeshift crutch. Shenandoah's final comment on the futility of war conveys the odd impression that it couldn...