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...figure out a way to shanghai some reinforcements. Forget the expense. If we don't manage that, we won't get any decent opponents; that means no spectators either, and our racket is finished. I understand there are a few more bruisers in Wisconsion (sic). You bring them here. The cost plays no part...

Author: By Herbert Beyer, | Title: Football, Communist Style | 10/1/1955 | See Source »

...godchildren. One of these was named Elihu. After Yale died in 1721, the young Nickses sued his widow for a portion of his estate that would in any age far exceed the normal expectations of mere godchildren. "Without wishing to cast aspersions on the character of the founder [sic] of Yale University," says Mayor Tibbits, "I cannot help wondering what the real relationship was between him and Mrs. Nicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Nabob | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...late in writing a letter to the CRIMSON concerning your book review of Gullible's Travels is that we have been staying up late in Langdell in an attempt not to appear stupid, and trying to understand what Mr. Harvey said. Our conclusion and I think Gullible would occur (sic) is that the reviewer should go to law school ... but not Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GULLIBLE'S TRAVELS | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...week's end. Pianist Novaë's was back in Town Hall, where her fans were so mu sic hungry that extra chairs had to be put on the stage for the audience. Dressed in regal black, Pianist Novaë's floated her music from the first pearly notes of a Bach-Siloti Prelude, gathered excitement with Beethoven's "Waldstein" and steeped Schumann's Kinderscenen and three Chopin pieces in reflective romanticism. She wound up with three works by her prolific countryman, Villa-Lobos. When the stormy applause finally abated, Guiomar Nova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Woman & Piano | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

McMath announced his candidacy in a speech in which he accused McClellan of pro-Republicanism. According to McMath. McClellan has vacillated on the McCarthy controversy. Said McMath: "As long as Joe was branding Democrats as spies and traitors, our Johnny was saying, 'Go to it, Joe, sic 'em.' It was only when McCarthy turned his guns on the Republicans that your senior Senator started dragging his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Arkansas Dustup | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

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