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As Harold Stassen's chartered plane flew east from Oregon last week, Lawyer Elmer Ryan, of South St. Paul, entertained the Stassen party with a recitation. Chubby Mr. Ryan, Stassen's former law partner and political strategist, romped up & down the aisle of the plane reciting Casey at...
One oft-quoted reason for retaining the lecture system is that it offers students an opportunity to come into direct contact with "great minds." But pitifully few lecturers fall into that category; and all seem to be increasingly concerned with the recitation of factual data. The amount of personal contact...
Hoisting of the new national banner, communal singing of India's new national anthem, and a recitation of the citizen's pledge of acceptance will highlight a program which also includes three speeches.
Decca last week released its most ambitious project in Americana. In Our Common Heritage (16 sides, $10) Bing Crosby, Walter Huston, Fredric March, Pat O'Brien, Brian Donlevy and Agnes Moorehead recite (with background music) American poems and anthems that mark milestones of U.S. history. Best of the lot...
The end of the war saw Harvard Hall reconverted to its old peacetime uses, but another revolution soon began, known as the "Rotton Cabbage Rebellion." between the students and the food they were being served. Among other incidents, this conflict once found 600 grains of tartar emetic applied to the...