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Thompson had assumed that football was a subject fit for kidding at Brown, which was an eager signer of the Ivy League de-emphasis pact of 1954, has since played the game so honorably that its teams have won 24 games, lost 20. But to his astonishment, Thompson soon learned that football is no laughing matter-even at Brown. His phone rang night and day with anonymous threatening calls from sullen students. Curious to see how Brown would react to more balloon pricking, Thompson stuck tongue farther in cheek, called for the abolition of the Navy...
David O. Riesman '31, Ford Professor, another signer of the protest, emphasized the need to "create a field of imaginative discussion of foreign policy alternatives," and the need for "more active bipartisan debate." Commenting on national "complacency at several levels--public, press, and government," Riesman declared that there was "not enough exciting treatment of foreign news by media...
Died. Peter Goelet Gerry, 78, longtime (1917-29, 1935-47) Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, wealthy great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; after long illness; in Providence. His state's first popularly elected Senator, shy Peter Gerry was a staunch New Deal foe, helped organize the opposition that killed F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court packing bill but, as an internationalist, supported New Deal foreign policies...
Francis Hopkinson (1737-91) was a Philadelphia lawyer ("One of your pretty, little, curious, ingenious men," wrote John Adams), inventor of an improved method of quilling the harpsichord, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first native American composer. He wrote several English-flavored songs, a quantity of church music and an "oratorial entertainment" entitled The Temple of Minerva, which his scattered fans claim as the first American opera. His most ambitious work was Seven Songs, dedicated to his old friend George Washington, who confessed that "I can neither sing one of the songs, nor raise a single note...
FAIR TRADE is out in South Carolina, tenth state to rule that manufacturer may not set retailers' prices. In legal battle between fair-trading General Electric Co. and Columbia, S.C. discount house, state supreme court gutted fair-trade law by striking down "non-signer clause," which says that stores must abide by fixed-price agreements even if they do not sign such pacts...