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...Allegro (The Dead Sea Scrolls; Pelican; 85?) is a bright young (33) British expert on Semitic languages who worked for a year on the international team of scholars that is piecing together and translating the scroll fragments in Jerusalem. Back at Manchester University (where he now occupies a teaching post in comparative Semitic philology), bearded John Allegro turned his reputation for brightness to one for brashness; he drew a public rebuke from his fellow scholars (TIME, April 2) when he suggested that the New Testament's Jesus Christ may have been modeled on the scrolls' "Teacher of Righteousness...
...carry out the duties of the Presidency, Truman said, "and that is to keep everlastingly at them, and to give as much time to them as it is possible to squeeze out of every 24 hours." The former president attacked proposals to lighten the burdens of the post, stating that "if the President lets things drift, the country is in danger, for drifting is the easy road to disaster...
Struik was suspended from his post with full pay in 1951, when he was indicted for violating state conspiracy statutes through membership in the Communist Party. In testimony before a congressional committee, F.B.I. undercover agent Herbert Philbrick had named Struik as a member of a Party cell...
Aside from the choice of Hand, the professors had no single definite suggestion for the post. Braucher mentioned Judge William Hastie, the first Negro to sit on the Court of Appeals, suggesting the advantage of "having people represent different segments" of the population, which is "an entirely sound thing to take into account." Freund, however, stated that "I think it would be a mistake to let the factor of race enter in at all; I think Judge Hastie would agree." An additional deterrent to Hastie's appointment pointed out by Braucher, is the fact that he was appointed...
...post-season play with Yale counterparts, only champion Winthrop could manage a win, defeating Calhoun 13-7. Eliot, however, held Johathon Edwards to a scoreless...