Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Permit me to contradict the statement that I "flunked" my Cambridge entrance in Latin the first time and "barely squeaked" in on the second [Dec. 22]. The truth is that I managed it the first time, as anyone with the merest suggestion of intelligence could. At the level required, the subject matter is necessarily restricted to archaic absurdities that can no longer inspire the young mind, if they ever could: "The sailors sacrifice the bull on the altar of the immortal gods!" This is the sort of bull we have got to be prepared to sacrifice...
...well-kept secret is the name of the CBS "spokesman" who told her that Judy Garland "doesn't want to work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." After this statement appeared in a Torre column in January 1957, Songstress Garland filed a $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract. Subpoenaed as a witness, Columnist Torre refused to name her informant, pleading the confidential relationship of reporter to source.* Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused...
...presence of at least one member in a congregation "other than the dominant racial group." Of 1,054 Congregational Christian churches (some 70% of the denomination's churches in U.S. metropolitan areas), nearly 27% turned out to be racially inclusive, compared to 17% in 1944. Said a board statement: "Scant basis for complacency . . . We have much yet to undertake in order to live up to our commitment as Christians and our reiterated statements that racial segregation...
...similar statement came from Hastings Wyman, Jr. '60, co-chairman of the Elections Committee: "As far as I know the election was honest. The rules were followed carefully and the procedures were essentially those used in last year's election...
...Foster '59 standing in favor of a new election if a sufficient number of seniors, through the petition, should demand it. Foster is second Marshal. The other two Marshals, Marc E. Leland '59 and R. Dyke Benjamin '59, and alternate Marshal Richard E. Ruben- stein '59 issued a joint statement claiming that the election was "honest and legitimate," and asked the Senior Class "to deny this petition (its) support...