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...have given up and accepted the advice of some of his friends to lie low. But, while he is a politician to his fingertips, Nixon is a man of consistent principle, whose values are as sound and fundamental as any in U.S. politics today. The son of a devout Quaker mother and a spirited Scots-Irish father who was a streetcar conductor and then a grocery-store operator, he grew up in the Depression and learned to take his problems head on. Always intense, serious and studious, he turned to government and politics as a boy, worked his way through...
...story tells what happened to a Quaker family in southern Indiana during the Civil War. The big question: If the Rebels come raiding, can the Friends, in all conscience, fight? Mother (Dorothy McGuire) says no, but then she is a prim old bim who says no to everything. Josh Birdwell (Anthony Perkins), the elder son. is otherwise inclined: "Would you stand by while, others die to protect you?'' Father (Gary Cooper) doesn't rightly know his own mind, but this he does allow: "Man's life ain't wuth a hill uh beans, less...
...Leverett House Dance Committee need fear no repercussions from the Radcliffe Administration if it chooses an Annex student as "Quaker Queen" tonight, Miss Emily B. Lacey, Radcliffe dean of residence, asserted this week...
...only at the end position that this Quaker team employs seniors, and here one finds two of the nine on the squad. At right end is co-captain Charley Gill. A strong defensive player, he had six tackles against Army last year. The left end is Dick Schafer, who was used mostly as a reserve last season...
...Appointment of the week: Quaker Hugh Borton, 53, to succeed Geographer Gilbert White as president of the nation's oldest Quaker college, Haverford. A Haverford graduate ('26), Borton studied at Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University), got his Ph.D. at the State University of Leyden in The Netherlands. From 1942 to 1948, he served in the State Department, rose to be chief of the Division of Northeast Asian Affairs. When Haverford picked him out of 250 candidates, he was professor of Japanese and director of the East Asian Institute at Columbia University...