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...Louis University basketball team, the Sugar Bowl title, over Kentucky, 61-60; in New Orleans. A St. Louis tip-in basket with four seconds to play upset Kentucky for the second straight year. North Carolina State, its third straight Dixie Classic, over Cornell, 51-49; in Raleigh...
...Apollo room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Va., a group of students from the College of William and Mary met one night in 1776 to form a new fraternity. The fraternity was to be nothing like other roistering student societies of the day. It was to have as its motto the first letters of three Greek words: 3>io(ro(f)la Btou KvfiepvrjTijs ("Love of wisdom the guide of life"). The letters, chosen that night, have remained stamped on U.S. higher education ever since-Phi Beta Kappa...
...North Carolina and thousands of other notables who had come to "Reynolda," just outside of Winston-Salem, for the ceremony. At the ripe old age of 117, Baptist Wake Forest College (enrollment: 1703) was breaking ground on its brand new campus-110 miles from its old one near Raleigh...
Most of the correspondents around the table in Atlanta were men accustomed to making news decisions for some of the South's best newspapers. From North Carolina, for instance, came Jack Riley, recently Sunday editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and now journalism professor at the University of North Carolina; George McCoy, managing editor of the Asheville Citizen; Henry Coble, telegraph editor for the Greensboro News; and LeGette Blythe, onetime college pal of the late Thomas Wolfe and former Charlotte newspaperman. Blythe has just published his sixth book, a Biblical novel entitled Tear for Judas. He took time...
...Harry Truman ever had a faithful Boswell, he was Jonathan Daniels, the even-voiced editor of the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer (circ. 113,277). Daniels, briefly Truman's press secretary in 1945, was always welcomed at the White House as a friendly reporter. The President read, and edited in galley proof, large chunks of Daniels' The Man of Independence. And he raised no objection when Daniels used Truman quotes to polish off South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes as a "miserable failure" as Secretary of State...