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...succeed Dr. Leigh, the trustees elected without ado a member of Bennington's faculty, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, 42, economist and labor mediator. Dr. Leigh will join the staff of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
Among the great quotations about which the elect may need refreshing: King Ethelred's promise; extracts from the Magna Charta; the Virginia Bill of Rights; libertarian exhortations by J. S. Mill, Henry George, Wendell Phillips, Daniel Webster, Thomas Paine, Emerson, Milton, General Smuts, Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt...
...pretense at giving extempore answers. BBC has gathered some of the best brains of Britain to serve on the show's permanent panel, and plenty of careful research goes into the program. Among the experts: Sir William Beveridge, Master of Oxford's University College; Historian Charles Kingsley Webster; Laborite Francis Williams; Birmingham University Economist Philip Sargant Florence. Also on tap are Government bigwigs such as Alfred Duff Cooper, who supplied for the first Answering You show an explanation for Britain's failure to bomb the Rumanian oil fields...
Coney Island was not always the garish proletarian mecca it is today. Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Sam Houston, other aristocrats disported themselves on its then remote plage. Walt Whitman too was crazy about it: "The long bare unfrequented shore ... I had all to myself . . . where I loved after bathing to race up and down...
...Hoppy who saw to it that they were served by a reliable bootlegger. He let no one bully his liberal professors. When an irate alumnus offered Hoppy $50,000 if he would fire a professor who had denounced the conduct of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial by Judge Webster Thayer (a Dartmouth man), Hoppy told the professor about it. The professor fumed. Said Hoppy: "Don't get excited. If you quit, I will too, and we'll split...