Word: w
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never sign my autograph on a check"). In Alfred "Rocky" popped a blue Alfred University beanie on his head while 2,000 students cheered. In Wellsville he solemnly accepted 50? campaign contributions from two shy Brownie scouts. In Olean he let ward bosses wait while he strode into W. T. Grant's to shake more hands and buy a nickel's worth of green taffy. In Salamanca he grabbed a baton and directed the high school band, grabbed a hula hoop and, with a flourish, tossed it around his neck...
While the Empire State's meadows and mountains were greening into summer, Democrats were preening with unqualified exuberance. In the fight for the statehouse, they had an unquestionable advantage, i.e., they held it already. Four years ago Multimillionaire W. Averell Harriman hit the hustings after two decades of public service, squeaked in as Governor by 11,125 votes. Harriman was stopped cold in his attempt to parlay the post into a 1956 Democratic nomination for President. So he decided to dig in at Albany. The Governor shoveled generous chunks of patronage to traditionally starved upstate Democrats to get them...
Miss Jean Lunn, soprano, will sing at the opening musical program of the Radcliffe Graduate Center, 6 Ash St., at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Landon W. Young '58-4 will accompany...
...Matthew W. Carley was honored recently on the occasion of his retirement on September 30, after 45 years of service with Harvard, with a farewell party in the Gordon McKay Laboratory of Applied Physics...
...father, Leonard W. Labaree, is Farnham Professor of History at Yale, presently engaged in editing the Benjamin Franklin Papers. So Labaree was born at New Haven, and thence began a journey which has led ultimately to the Winthrop House doorstep--but by the scenic route...