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February, just before the House passed the bill, Dirksen entered Washington's Sibley Memorial Hospital for treatment of a bleeding ulcer, took along his own dog-eared copy of the measure and began to rewrite it. He kept at it during a week's recuperation at Broad Run Farm, his redwood-and-field-stone ranch house in suburban Sterling...
Also: Duncan M. Kennedy; Clayton T. Koelb, Jr.; Leslie Lessinger; John M. Lewis; Richard H. Masland; Leonard A. Merewitz; Frederick V. Mulhauser; Carl D. Offner; David F. Phillips; Michael D. Platt; Joe A. Porter; Marc J. Roberts; Edward K. Schmookler; George S. Shapiro; James C. Sherburne; William F. Sibley; Nathaniel B. Smith; Martin C. Spechler; Michael R. Stein; John E. Terrell; Andreas W. Teuber; Stephen N. Thomas; Kenneth L. Tigar; Stephen F. Tobias; Richard Weisskoff; Francis A. Westbrook III; and John C. Wilcox...
Convened by a special state commission directed by John Sibley, a popular and respected Atlanta lawyer and banker, the hearings were held in each of Georgia's ten Congressional districts and resulted in a recommendation that the state change its laws and begin desegregation of public schools...
...Sibley Commission succeeded in changing public opinion, said Galphin, because it posed the question as a choice between open or closed schools instead of segregation or integration. No one favored closed schools, Galphin said, although many failed to understand the question and responded by flatly declaring, "I'se for segregation...
...particularly unvisited corner of the Lowell House Library (right between Sibley's Harvard Graduates and A History of the Hasty Pudding Club) I recently happened upon a volume called Verses from the Harvard Advocate, 1876. I regret the impossibility of reproducing this charming collection here for it is impossible to describe, in mere prose, the delightful abandon of The Other Young Man--A Class Day Romance or the stern moral of The Knobby Sophomore. There are witty tours de force, such as The Episode, (It was the plump conductor,/On the Friday-night last car,/Who told the tale...