Word: john
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...results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds-on favorite: Denver's Congressman John Albert Carroll, a husky, 48-year-old ex-policeman who walks a straight Fair Deal line. He led Millikin by a decisive margin in an earlier poll...
Once again, a strong varsity second half rally was unable to produce a victory. Springfield concentrated a tight defense on John Rockwell and Ed Smith, and forced the Varsity to shoot from outside...
...library has its historical curios: among them, Harvard's first character (1650), the one surviving book from John Harvard's library, and Edwin Booth's last cigar. But its more significant treasures are the great numbers of early printed books, many of them dating from before 1500, and its "author" collections. Quite a number of books are on view. (behind glass) in the Library's lobby or in the lavish exhibition room...
...collection, the world's best, much of which is one exhibit in the Library's special Keats room. The collection has many of the poet's letters and the manuscripts of a number of his poems, notably "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "To Autumn." Other collections range from John Donne and George Herbert to E. A. Robinson and Thomas Wolfe. Philip Hofer's Graphic Arts Collection is another prize feature of the Library--a summary of the best in book design from Babylonian cuneiform tablets to the latest printing innovations...
...usual John Chase will be at goal, and Jack Carman, Algie Allen, Dusty Burke, and Bill Bliss will be at defense...