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...late Kemal Atatürk its first President, had called the British ambassador to his deathbed in 1938 and offered to make him the next President of Turkey. The incredible story appeared last week as part of an otherwise sobersided biography of the late British diplomat, Sir Pierson Dixon, written by his son. Before the Turks could protest, Tory M.P. Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe, a former diplomat, explained that it was all a 30-year-old joke perpetrated by himself. He had written a phony cable about Atatürk's dying offer as a satire on diplomatese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 23, 1968 | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...Stiles-Morse, 22-0, as sophomore quarterback Mike Gannon passed for one touchdown and ran for another. Dunster overcame a scoreless first half to beat Yale's Timothy Dwight-Sillman, 14-0. Dunster's George Mekras and Bo Bohannon ran for the scores. Eliot's Elephants turned back Davenport-Pierson. 14-6, sparked by a first-quarter scoring bomb from Bill Cherry to Bob Beaman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Intramural Champs Split Title Tilts With Yale | 11/27/1967 | See Source »

Leverett's booters lost to Pierson College, 2-1, in the only other House soccer game played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Intramural Champs Split Title Tilts With Yale | 11/27/1967 | See Source »

...with timing and spatial relationships. The editing is uneven, especially in the boxing and the road-tarring scenes. Rosenberg's camera records too much excitement from too many angles. What could have been classic sequences are reduced to patchworks of confusion. The screenplay, by Donn Pearce and Frank R. Pierson, based on Pearce's novel, is highly successful. There is no failure to communicate here...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Cool Hand Luke | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

Quincy will now play the winner of Yale's intramural soccer contest during New Haven Weekend. At the moment Siliman, last year's champion is in the lead with a 7-1 record. With three games remaining in the Yale season, however, Dwight and Pierson Colleges still have shots at the title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy Booters Clinch House Title in 4-3 Win | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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