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Although he has already assumed his official duties, A. Whitney Griswold will be formally installed as president of Yale University at a ceremony in Woolsey Hall at 3 p.m. Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Inaugurates A. W. Griswold as New Pres. Friday | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

Alfred Whitney Griswold will formally take office as 16th president of Yale University at Inauguration ceremonies in Woolsey Hall on October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Seats Griswold | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Alfred Whitney Griswold will formally take office as 16th president of Yale University at Inauguration ceremonies in Woolsey Hall on October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Seats Griswold | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...Flesh. The ambitious, foredoomed politico this time is restless, willful Jeremiah Beaumont who grew up in backwoods Kentucky, realizing that "I could not take the world as other men for the brightness of the moment and the tickle of the flesh." Apprenticed to Colonel Cassius Fort, a rousing linsey-woolsey lawyer who was leading the poor farmers' fight for "relief" from land debts, Jeremiah fell in love with Rachel Jordan, who had been seduced by Cassius Fort and delivered of a stillborn baby. At first she refused him. Then, in a series of extravagantly emotional scenes, Jeremiah finally wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web of Politics | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

John Calhoun, born to the cotton rows and the linsey-woolsey of a South Carolina frontier farm, became the greatest spokesman the slave-owning aristocracy ever had. He loved the Union with a choked, subterranean passion, but his arguments led fatefully to secession and Fort Sumter. Desperately he yearned for the presidency, but he took such an uncompromising stand on so many unpopular and often sectional issues that he seemed consciously to be disqualifying himself for the big prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost Cause | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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