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...force a runoff. This would deprive the feisty little ex-Governor of the big win he needs in order to retain his national clout. But nobody is counting George out yet. Much depends on whether Wallace still evokes the Populist yearnings of traditionalist Alabama. Says State Senator C.C. Torbert: "If they vote with their minds, it will be Brewer; if they vote from their hearts, it will be Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Primaries: Season Openers | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...Philip J. Philbin appeared to have won a three way race against Republican Laurence Curtis and Independent Chandler Stevens. In the tenth district Mrs. Margaret M. Heckler, the Republican who unseated former Speaker Joseph W. Martin seems to have handily defeated her Democratic challenger Edmund Dinis. Another incumbent, Rep. Torbert H. MacDonald defeated former White House aid William S. Abbott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the Nation: How the People Voted | 11/6/1968 | See Source »

...seventh congressional district Democratic race, John D. Elder, assistant dean of the Divinity School, lost by a 3-1 landslide to President Kennedy's Harvard roommate and longtime incumbent Torbert H. MacDonald...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Asst. Dean Elder Whipped In Mass. Primary Contest | 9/18/1968 | See Source »

Despite injuries, the football team performed admirably. Torbert McDonald became the first member of the Class of 1940 to make the first string. Harvard beat Princeton, 34-6, and then dealt Yale its first defeat of the season. The victory over Princeton was the first since 1923 and the first major-game win for Harvard under Coach Dick Harlow...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Mood of '40 Changed in 4 Years; Class Left Under Shadow of War | 6/14/1965 | See Source »

...football team's 9-6 loss to Princeton was regarded as a moral victory, but its 20-7 loss to Yale was a surprise, "We just didn't click," sighed Captain Torbert Macdonald...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Mood of '40 Changed in 4 Years; Class Left Under Shadow of War | 6/14/1965 | See Source »

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