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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Master Reuben Brower (currently on sabbatical) and Acting Master G. Wallace Woodworth, Adams has gained a reputation as the laissez-faire House. Enforcement of regulations is low-key and relaxed, but any Freshman intoxicated with visions of going to breakfast, wearing a T-shirt, with his mistress on his arm, should drink a cup of strong coffee. The girl will be asked to return at 4 p.m. and Neil Harris will probably ask the student to wear a tie. But he'll call it a cravat, which makes everything all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams | 3/12/1966 | See Source »

After Lie Detector Expert Warren D. Holmes said that his tests indicated Shea was innocent, the airman made another confession and this time signed it. Though Crime Lab Supervisor Edward D. Whittaker testified that Shea's shirt was splattered with his own B-type blood and there was only one spot of Mary Meslener's O-type, the confession persuaded a jury to find Shea guilty of first-degree murder and to recommend mercy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Boy Who Wanted to Die | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...Told Shea that Mary Meslener's blood was "all over" his shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Boy Who Wanted to Die | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...husband. At Shea's first trial, the state did not disclose this fact-or the discovery of the victim's wallet in a military installation with which Shea had no connection. Moreover, Shea later claimed in prison that he had actually cut himself and bloodied his own shirt in the hope of qualifying for a medical discharge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Boy Who Wanted to Die | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...great honor elsewhere. In 1864, London put on an unprecedented jamboree for the visiting lion of liberty. He was given splendid receptions, pronounced "noble" by the poet laureate, and half a million Londoners yelled their heads off. He had the good sense and bad taste to wear his red shirt nearly everywhere. There were only two sour notes. Queen Victoria was "deeply shocked" by the high-level attention paid to this subverter of established order. Karl Marx, then organizing the First International in England, huffed: "A miserable spectacle of imbecility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man in the Red Flannel Shirt | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

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