Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles Open Golf Tourney (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Reported by Bill Stern...
...previously reported that the University of North Carolina's oath lacks the so-called "informer clause." and Princeton disclosed that its oath also has no such clause. Robert J. Stern '50, a delegate to the NSA meeting, said he believes Dartmouth NROTC students signed a different form of oath and that University of Louisville NROTC students never signed...
...said that famous men are usually the product of unhappy childhood. The stern compression of circumstances, the twinges of adversity, the spur of slights and taunts in early years, are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious motherwit without which great actions are seldom accomplished...
...away from Shakespeare's Serpent of Old Nile. Caesar, finding her a petulant child, leaves her a queen and woman, with a new authority and cruelty. But it is Caesar who really dominates the stage: a Caesar who is neither the image on a Roman coin nor the stern voice of the Roman Capitol, but a great and contradictory man molded into a peculiarly Shavian hero. Shaw's Caesar is much more the clement conqueror than the model for dictators, a man above meanness and resentment, with a lonely rather than a loving heart. On him first Rome...
Died. Jacques Stern, 67, French banker and onetime Radical-Socialist cabinet minister (Merchant Marine, Colonies) and under secretary (Navy); in a plunge from his ninth-floor Park Avenue duplex in Manhattan...