Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indicated that he saw nothing wrong with using a strap, and he certainly was a man with a conscience. "I spank my own children," said he, "and I'm somewhat ashamed the next morning when [the buttocks] turn blue." Cried Board Chairman George Whitman Jr.: "The state of Georgia has a law abolishing corporal punishment in prisons and on chain gangs. Do you think that this law, applying to hardened criminals, should apply to a partially blind twelve-year-old boy?" Answered Nelms: "The board has never ordered me to abolish corporal punishment...
...midships cabin, Dwight Eisenhower sat at his desk, making final corrections and checks on the speech he would give, later in the afternoon, before the U.N.'s General Assembly (TIME, Dec. 14). As the President finished each page, he handed it across the aisle to Ann Whitman, his private secretary, who sat before a special I.B.M. electric typewriter equipped with jumbo type. As Mrs. Whitman finished the final proofed copy of the speech, she passed it on to Mary Caffrey, secretary to James Hagerty, who banged out stencils for the duplicating machines...
Other breaststrokers are John Fowler, Harold Kuller, and Armie Marlin. Free-stylers on the team include Roger Clifton, Chouteau Dyer, Harry Eldrige, John Lind, Stuart Ogden, Steve Singer, Glen Sisler, Frank Weller, and Dave Whitman, while Vince Aoki, Jerry Moulton, and Paul Santmire make up the backstroke contingent. The four freshmen divers are Frank Eaton, Joe Ellis, John Jeppson, and Arthur Martin...
...Italian Renaissance tables fill in the niches. The Trustee's room on the fourth floor is a remarkably beautiful oval room whose bookshelves contain Washington's Mt. Vernon collection, and whose cabinets house the effluvia of a conscious literary tradition, a letter from Washington, a bronze cast of Whitman's hand, and a book entitled, Life of a Highwayman, bound in his own skin. The effect of this room, with its slow ticking Grandfather's clock and polished center table, mirrors the feeling of the whole Atheneum--a timeless, stately place in which to work...
...strangely modest yarn for Miller, who spent a lifetime stretching the truth about himself until it snapped. Famed on two continents at the turn of the century as the "Poet of the Sierras," and touted by critics of the day as the peer of Byron, Browning and Whitman, Miller has undergone a near-total eclipse since his death...