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...HYRC won the victor's huckleberry wreath for their defense of the use Un-American Activities Committee last night, but most objective felt that a superior HYDC team outclassed them in the "great debate...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Republicans Win Debate Over Abolishing HUAC | 3/29/1961 | See Source »

...absence of a judge, moderator K. Henrikson '62 decided to award prize--"the only thing he could find the Square resembling the ancient laurel wreath"--to the team that more people by its argument. before the debate started showed people in favor of abolishing the Committee, 13 supporting its activities, and undecided. By the end of the hes, before a heavily Democratic once, four people had changed their in favor of the HUAC, and only had been converted to the HYDC on that it should be abolished...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Republicans Win Debate Over Abolishing HUAC | 3/29/1961 | See Source »

...plot than can King Lear or Goldilocks, it may be stated that Querry is killed by Marie's husband in vengeance for an imagined sexual wrong, and the journalistic saint becomes a fallen angel. As an ironic footnote, he is buried under a misattributed quote. Parkinson sends a wreath inscribed with a line supposedly from Robert Browning ("Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art"). It is really from Walter Savage Landor, but Querry, ambiguous martyr, might have accepted it, as well as Lander's conclusion: "I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Among the Lepers | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...flawed the Republic Day parade in New Delhi. Lancers of the 61st Cavalry pranced by on spirited horses; the 13th Grenadiers Camel Corps galumphed past, and troops of elephants ponderously raised their trunks in salute. More meaningful to many Indians was the sight of a British Queen laying a wreath of 500 white roses at the shrine of Mohandas Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Royal Progress | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...girls' full names and home addresses must be kept secret, Gartner said, to insure the girls' safety and prevent threatening letters from reaching them. One of the girls received a funeral wreath C.O.D. in the mail last week. Later, a man arrived at her front door in a hearse to ask for the coffin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1000 in Square Sign Cards Urging Support For Segregated Girls | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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