Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great stylist--those wonderful phrases which people are always quoting in dissertations. `This decent and dauntless people'--Churchill used James and probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...
Eisenhower issued his instructions to Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers about 3 1/2 hours after his special fact-finding panel report to him that "We see no prospects for an early cessation of the strike" which already has lasted a record 97 days...
...other Club entry, a Volkswagen driven by William E. Weir '61, romped to an easy win in the small car class, finishing a good 12 seconds over the second place winner...
Delighted that an ordinary publicity stunt had been blown up into a national sensation, United Artists fought the case. In a hearing last April, Post Office Examiner William A. Duvall upheld the ban. The Goya original, he conceded, "is a masterpiece, [and] nudity is not obscene." But Duvall argued that United Artists had sent out a poor reproduction. Said he: "It is a copy of a photograph which does not accurately depict that which it purports to show ... It is simply a color picture of a nude woman...
After much discussion, the group passed two motions. One supporting the candidacy of William S. Barnes, assistant Dean of the Law School, for membership on the Cambridge School Committee; and the other for reelection of Cambridge City Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo...