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...silent amnesty for many guerrillas who had returned home from the mountains. At Agios Georgios on the slopes of Mt. Helicon, the polling place was the schoolhouse from which guerrillas last year had kidnaped the teacher. An election committee of village elders-all with white mustaches, goatskin jackets and shepherd's crooks-presided over the poll. When an American reporter entered they said in chorus: "All is quiet...
...idea of a Student Activities Center originated in June of 1945 when a Student Council investigation first proposed such a center as a World War II memorial Until 1945 such activities as the Liberal Union, the Network, and the Album were housed in Shepherd Hall, a wooden-frame building on Holyoke Street. Shepherd Hall was razed in the summer of 1945. The drive for an Activities Center gained impetus in 1947 when an Alumni Committee under Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 began deliberations toward selection of the University's war memorial...
...Eliots were New Englanders: they had come to Massachusetts around 1670 from East Coker, Somerset. T. S. Eliot's grandfather moved from Boston to St. Louis, founded the city's first Unitarian Church, as well as Washington University. The Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot could be a stern shepherd; one of his more memorable sermons was entitled: "Suffering Considered as Discipline." But young Tom Eliot's Irish Catholic nurse considered Unitarianism too thin a spiritual cloak against the cold winds of the world; she liked to take him along to her own church, a block away from...
...shepherd won the crowd, but Judge Hartman, ignoring the applause as though he were stone deaf, went on with his work. The highly barbered black standard poodle (nonsporting group), the feather-light toy white poodle (toy group) and the Scotty (king of the terriers) got their inspections. Then each of the six finalists was gaited for the judge...
...shepherd and the pointer were beautiful in long-legged motion; Trick, skimming nonchalantly through his paces, was a smooth and jaunty little Scotty. Judge Hartman didn't take long to decide. He picked up the blue ribbon and pointed to Trick. Said Hartman: "Not only one of the greatest dogs I have ever judged, but one of the greatest I have ever seen...