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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great-Grandfather Daniel Coleman held 105 taxable slaves, worked 1,725 acres. Introduced to courthouse politics at ten by his grandfather, J.P. was taught at 15 to read the Congressional Record every day. At 17 he enrolled in the University of Mississippi, the first Coleman to attain college since pre-Civil War days. At 17 he was also on the hustings rounding up audiences for Gubernatorial Candidate Martin Conner; at 21 he went to Washington as Mississippi Congressman Aaron L. Ford's secretary. Returning home with an Indiana-born wife, Coleman progressed from district attorney to Circuit Court judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: The Six-Foot Wedge | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Beyond Reason. The man of science, Psychiatrist Robert Vossmenge, and the man of God, Pastor Kurt Degenbrück, are both attached to a mental clinic in pre-Hitler Germany. Their cases have the garish intimacy of tabloid headlines-an old woman who believes her son is being tortured in the basement, a teen-age boy who shoots and kills his brother "just to see what it felt like." These vignettes, complete and unrelated stories in themselves, are used much like algebraic problems by Novelist Deich to set the doctor and the pastor puzzling over the cube roots of free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Physician, Heal Thyself | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Mechem announced the appointment of Griswold to the Association's Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Other committee appointments include: Louis A. Teopfer, Director of Law School Admissions, Committee on Pre-Legal Education; Harold J. Berman, professor of Law, Committee on Teaching Law in Liberal Arts Curriculum; and Philip A. Putnam, Assistant Librarian, Committee on Cooperation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Griswold Elected | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

Suddenly a hush came over the crowd, and somebody started playing "Pomp and Circumstance" on the piano. I saw Carroll dashing to some pre-arranged place, and a solemn lad strode up on the stage carrying a little pot. A Pudding pot, I assume. Someone started giving a speech, and I drifted over to check on Miss Baker...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Baby Doll | 2/20/1957 | See Source »

...some time now President Pusey has been speaking of the crowding in the Houses as if it were an unmitigated evil. He has voiced a desire to return to pre-war housing standards, by eliminating the double bed and giving every undergraduate a private bedroom. In order to impliment this program he has announced that the College will spend ten million dollars to build two new houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Price Gracious Living? | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

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