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Tennis and typing are the University's step children. Every yea the plea is made to further the two activities at Harvard, and just a regularly, the plea is lost in the quiet bureaucracy of the HAA and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perennials | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

...succeed here tonight, it is inevitable that this issue will return again and again until justice is done," he warned. "It cannot be delayed, and it will not be denied." But when the last yea had been shouted, Knowland's justice had been denied. Voting for the jury-trial amendment were 39 Democrats and twelve Republicans, voting against were 33 Republicans and nine Democrats. To Knowland's chagrin, Majority Leader Johnson had scooped up such Democratic moderates as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Ohio's Frank Lausche, Rhode Island's John Pastore, Washington's "Scoop" Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Surprising Defeat | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...Yea & Nay. Sporting a red carnation in his lapel, Lausche stood while Senate Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris prayed that his charges be saved "from all compromise, which crucifies principle, and from all shoddy workmanship, which betrays the possible best, and from cowardly expediency, which is treason to the highest integrity." With the 33 other members beginning terms, he marched to the Senate well to be sworn in by the Vice President. Then came Lausche's moment. When Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson proposed that Arizona's venerable Carl Hayden be elected Senate President Pro Tempore, Republican Bill Knowland rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The New Boy | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Gradually young Dr. Selye (rhymes with tell yea) convinced himself that the common factor was stress. Now, 31 years later and after half a lifetime devoted to studying stress and theorizing about it, Selye has subjected himself to what he frankly admits has been a stressful experience. From millions of words in technical journals he has distilled the essence of his facts and theories into a layman's guide, The Stress of Life, published this week (McGraw-Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life & Stress | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...light, in piety, and indeed in humility from the very date on which these historic foundations were raised up to the sight of mankind. Like manna from heaven, endowments have rained down upon us, giving us to know that our thoughts are upright and our actions upward. Yea, is the wonderworking of providence not proof enough of the fruitfulness of our seed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errand Into the Wilderness | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

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