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G.O.P. Weak Points. But there are weak points in the Republican ranks, too. In Nevada, long-winded George ("Molly") Malone, who spoke more words on the Senate floor last year than any other member, will have to do some fast talking to hold his seat. His probable opponent: Alan Bible...
It was in 1926 that the first serious rift developed between Harvard and its protege Princeton. Often referred to as "the outburst of '26" it resulted from the H-P football game that year when Princeton students absconded with six policeman's hats and the Harvard Lampoon distributed an exceptionally...
Three times in two months Harry Truman publicly announced that his confidence was unshaken in Bill Boyle, his Kansas City protege and the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Last week Bill Boyle suddenly resigned from the committee. As his reason, Boyle gave ill health.
In its own bumbling way Yale tried to do the Massachusetts school favors in return. When President Holyoke of Harvard died, President Ezra Stiles of Yale recommended a certain Rev. Samuel Locke to the Harvard Corporation as a worthy successor to him. Locke served three years until 1773 and then...
He was deeply unhappy in Paris; he had been forced to leave his young wife and their two children in Teheran. In his small Left Bank room he became nervous and moody, developed stomach ulcers. When he heard about the ulcers, the Shah allowed his ex-protege to return home...