Word: murdock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the committee finally cast its vote last week, not one of Bill Langer's Republican colleagues cared to defend him. Three Democrats-"Cotton Ed"; Smith, Tom Connally, Abe Murdock-cast dissenting votes, on the grounds that, whatever Bill Langer had done, the people of North Dakota had chosen him for their Senator...
...William D. Quinn, West Roxbury, Roslindale High School; Irving Rudman, Dorchester, Public Latin School, Boston; Thomas Ryan, Quincy, North Quincy High School; John J. Shea, Boston, Public Latin School, Boston; Charles W. Tait, Dorchester, Public Latin School, Boston; Nicholas Tawa, West Roxbury, Roslindale High School; Paul D. Tibbetts, Winchendon, Murdock High School, Winchendon; Alexander A. Ullrich, Hyde Park, Hyde Park High School; John R. White Andover, Phillips Academy, Andover; and Leonard M. Wright Jr., Milton, Milton Academy...
...fame of the retiring Master of Leverett will not be as short-lived as his tenure. One of the most successful traditions fostered by Professor Murdock was the annual Christmas reading, which Professor Hoadley intends to perpetuate. The evening was invariably begun with an excerpt from the Gospel according to St. Luke, but before long "Ken" launched into long quotations from Dorothy Parker and Bob Benchley, whose works, along with those of P.G. Wodehouse, lined his library shelves...
Professor Murdock prided himself on Leverett's hospitality to guests of the University. However, several years ago he was preparing to meet Hervey Allen, author of the then best-seller "Anthony Adverse," and discovered several minutes before the reception that no copy of the book could be found. Mr. Murdock himself sprinted up to the Square and bought one in the nick of time, and while the author scrawled his autograph on the fly-leaf, concealed the uncut pages with masterful grace...
Unlike his colleague, "Frisky" Merriman, Professor Murdock has refused for several years to act in the annual House play. When he once played a drunken porter who drove the other characters off the stage with a blunderbuss, the audience went wild, and he modestly decided not to tempt fate with another appearance...