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...days before Lamont, when the Widener reading room resembled an intellectual YMCA, Radcliffe students surrounded a young man named Phillip McNiff like a band of suffragettes to petition for equal rights. The protests accomplished nothing, McNiff continued to chase the intruders away, and Radcliffe bulletin boards meekly rescinded their initial judgement by announcing: "Mr. McNiff is not an ogre...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Behind the Stacks | 2/8/1956 | See Source »

...fact, a person who can't talk about libraries would have difficulty conversing with Phillip McNiff. Associates often describe his mind as a gigantic card catalogue; certainly he has an uncanny memory for titles, authors, publishers, and dates...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Behind the Stacks | 2/8/1956 | See Source »

...Phillip DeCaro '57, co-chairman of the drive, said that prospective donors will be welcome any time today and need not have made a pledge. The Red Cross will be in Memorial Hall from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Drive Lags Behind '54 Total | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

Return Engagement. In Rhinelander, Wis.. awaiting sentence for robbing the home of Phillip Richert, ex-Convict Carl R. Thompson. 31, broke out of jail, was recaptured and sentenced to two terms for burglary after Richert caught him in his home a second time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...Jenner. In Indianapolis, the Craig-backed Republican candidate for mayor, James Birr, had won a bitter primary fight over a candidate backed by G.O.P. Mayor Alex M. Clark, who is anti-Craig. Clark was nominally for Birr in the general election, but his heart was not in it. Democrat Phillip L. Bayt won by 16,000 votes. The defeated Birr sulked: "It is clear-cut evidence that you can sulk your way into socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fright in Indiana | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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