Word: princeton
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...Churches in its declaration against testing (TIME, Aug. 12). Among the signers: Methodist Bishops Charles W. Brashares of Chicago, Eugene M. Frank of St. Louis and John Wesley Lord of Boston; the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts; Presbyterian President John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary; Congregational Dean John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary; Baptists Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (retired) and Dr. Robert J. McCracken of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church; Methodist Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of Manhattan's Christ Church; and Baptist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery...
Best Since Berg. Composer Imbrie grew up in Princeton, N.J., started playing the piano when he was four. As a Princeton University undergraduate, he studied composition with Roger Sessions, won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award in 1944 for his String Quartet in B Flat. He followed Sessions in 1946 to Berkeley, where he got his M.A. With three years out for work in Rome on a Prix de Rome and later a Guggenheim fellowship, he has taught at the University of California ever since...
...Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio-TV career, his Yale elevens had won 16, tied 2, lost 17. Win or lose, the Tennessee Cannonball was good for a laugh, liked to tell stories on himself. Once, in a game with Princeton, the referee penalized Yale ten yards because Hickman was coaching from the sidelines. "I ran after him; the coach recounted, "and shouted. 'Why, you dumb so-and-so, you don't even know that the penalty for [that] is 15 yards!' The referee looked at me scornfully and said...
...Crimson heavyweight varsity set a new record Saturday to beat Princeton, MIT and Rutgers in the Compton Cup race. The varsity win was the climax of a day that saw the Crimson sweep four races at Princeton and five lightweight races at Dartmouth...
...defeating the Tiger eight, which the Princeton coach had termed the best crew he had seen in twenty years, the varsity led from the first quarter of a mile. The Princetonians maintained their start in the high 30's after the Crimson boat had dropped down to its racing stroke of 32 and held a lead of about one seat. But as soon as the Tiger shell came down to racing cadence the varsity's superior power and steadiness became apparent with the Crimson boat pulling out in front by a half-length in the next quarter mile...