Word: townsend
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Freshmen will have their first opportunity to hear venerable Charles Townsend copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, as he makes a rare public appearance December 16 to give his 41st annual Christmas reading in Emerson...
...shifting, running, behind-the-scenes fight for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, three new "compromise" candidates emerged last week: Iowa's middle-of-the-road National Committeeman Harrison Earl Spangler, a party wheel horse for two decades; Delaware's strawberry-growing ex-Senator John G. Townsend, close friend of Senate G.O.P. Leader Charles McNary; and Missouri's middle-of-the-road National Committeeman Barak Thomas Mattingly, host to the meeting in St. Louis on Dec. 7 at which the chairman will be picked...
Another famed Harvard character is "Copey"--Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, the second in the immortal trio of "Kitty and Copey and Bliss." "Kitty" was Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, renowned Shakespearean scholar, who died a year ago, while "Bliss" was Professor Bliss Perry, beloved English teacher. Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, and his readings have thrilled thousands. Annually be attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman Robert Benchley '12, and many more." About each of these the legends are never-ending...
...wealthy, sleek Jim Murray, although no man of might, has championed New Deal measures. His only opponent: former Congressman Joseph P. Monaghan, onetime baby of the House (1933), whose principal following is among the shreds and shards of Townsend clubs...
...Houghton Pond in the Blue Hills from the stops of Widener last Saturday to celebrate a non-explosive Fourth. Entertained with a soft-ball game, swimming, and a three-group like up Blue Hill, and nourished by Howie Oedel '43 and his two assistants, Win Bernard '43 and Bob Townsend '43, the trip ended successfully at 7 o'clock with a bus ride back to Cambridge...