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After the council's announcement, the protests grew even louder. F. Champion Ward, dean of the college and a staunch defender of the Hutchins degree, sent in his resignation (Kimpton turned it down). All nine members of the faculty policy committee, as well as the chairmen of eleven departments, begged the chancellor to reconsider the council's action, "taken after . . . consideration too brief for so grave a matter." The heads of all student organizations also protested, then summoned a student rally. All in all, it was like old times at Chicago-but with the revolution going the other...
...course, Youngdahl stands to be roundly denounced for reminding Senators that scapegoats also have Constitutional rights. The people who assumed Lattimore guilty from the moment he was accused will say Youngdahl, a staunch Republican, has sold out to pro-Communists. But Youngdahl can weather these attacks with a clear conscience. In a time of crisis, he has proven that the judiciary is still the best guardian of Constitutional liberties...
...meet a brilliant young Frenchman, Guy de Passy. John is puzzled by the fellow, Robert not. "It is this manner of the great world about him that astonishes and charms you," he says to John. "I think he rates us lowly . . . myself discontented and half a monk; you a staunch simpleton . . . I would say he is one of those people who may perish of their own cleverness...
Steady Job Without Pay. Charles Dawes's bedrock integrity never led him into a silly contempt for money. In 1880, when his father was running for Congress, young Charley, 15, startled his staunch Republican family by parading past their Marietta, Ohio home tootling a flute in the opposition band. It was, he explained airil when he got home, a purely professional appearance for which he had received one silver dollar...
...Filipino guests, only one was a Liberal; the rest, Quirino charged, were Nacionalistas, among them Ramon Magsaysay, the Huk-killing Defense Secretary who resigned last month to run against Quirino in next fall's presidential election campaign (TIME, March 9). The President did not mention that two other staunch Liberals, one of them his acting Defense Secretary, Oscar Castelo, were invited to the party but failed to show up. He accused Ambassador Spruance of plotting to sell Stevenson on Nacionalista policies by seating him in such a fashion that Nacionalistas could whisper in both his ears...