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Some states were taking steps to abide by the Supreme Court decision. in New York last week, State Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. ruled that the fourth stanza of America* could not be sung in opening school exercises because its use "deliberately set out to evade the constitutional prohibition." The attorney generals of both New Jersey and Massachusetts handed down opinions supporting the Supreme Court in their states, although some local school boards threatened defiance of those opinions as well as of the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Another Kind of Defiance | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...know how Dawson wants his readers to react to this stanza of "Bernie's Christmas," but I responded with an unequivocal...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: The Lion Rampant | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...Shakespeare looms in "With this I thee wed, as long as men shall sing." Finally, his poem manages to rhyme without seeming pusby. One stanza...

Author: By Orvis Driskell, | Title: The Advocate | 2/5/1963 | See Source »

Presumably, the Observer is also needed by people who want a history of golf, pictures of a tame owl and a two-ton ball of twine, old Roman verse (a stanza from Lucilius), and a Page One story about Chinese cookery in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Losing Ground | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

Early in the third stanza, Saybrook showed its last remnants of life. Aided by a pair of penalties, they marched 45 yards to the Harvard 30 with halfback Pete Becket leading the drive. But Eliot recovered a fumble on the 30, and on the next play Wood dashed 57 yards to the Saybrook 12; three plays later he went up the middle to make the score...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: Eliot House Beats Saybrook, 21-0; Shea, Wood Lead Team to Victory | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

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