Word: strider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Bixler's shoes this month steps Colby's Dean of Faculty Robert E. L. Strider, 42, who taught English at Connecticut College before switching to Colby in 1957. More "intellectual curiosity" is new President Strider's aim. It would not have been possible if Colby had not risen to the quality in J. Seelye Bixler. Colby no longer gets its students mainly from Maine; it is drawing bright applicants from all over the East. Says outgoing President Bixler, who will teach religion at the University of Hawaii next year: "They aren't all topnotch students...
...retire for ill health, and Robert Smith, a Marine Corps hero and former FBI agent-made an earnest and honest effort to build their case at what can be assumed to be great social cost to themselves. They got no help from Tallahatchie's Sheriff H. C. Strider, a cotton planter (1,500 acres), who insisted that Till had been whisked away alive. "This whole thing was rigged," he said...
...Defendants Bryant and Milam. They hired five of Sumner's resident lawyers, who produced expert witnesses-including a doctor and an embalmer-to testify that the bloated, decomposing body had been in the river for at least ten days, and therefore could not have been Emmett Till. Sheriff Strider took the stand for the defense and said the same thing: "If it had been one of my own boys, I couldn't have identified it." In most of the U.S., this conflict over the identity of the body could have been resolved by elementary instruments of police work...