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...Timothy E. Writh '61 (D-Colo.), member of the Senate Banking and Budget Committee

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opinions on the Flexible Freeze Budget Plan | 2/3/1989 | See Source »

...Writh 16 of their 25 players new to the club this year, the Tigers no longer seem afflicted with tired blood. Rookies and rejects have blended smoothly together. "When you have a young team, as we do," says hard-hitting (.306) Outfielder Al Kaline, a nine-year veteran at 26, "everybody tries harder, because the new young players are trying hard to make it." Though the Tigers lack the down-the-line power of the Yankees, the big bats of First Baseman Norman Cash (with a .365 average to lead the league, 32 home runs) and Leftfielder Rocky Colavito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in Years | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...Rowlands, a hymn-singing Welshman from a valley full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves to trace a few more lines on the meticulously mapped social topography of postwar Britain. New to this socially useful labor, Novelist Gallie adds a wonderful Welsh fluency, quite as awesome as the more widely notorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...disturbing finding: nine of the 64 had been scoutmasters and had had relations writh boys in their troops. "This suggests," say the three psychiatrists guardedly, "either that scouting strongly activates latent homosexuality or that homosexuals . . . join the scouting movement because of the . . . opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Is a Homosexual? | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...faculty for 34 years, had charged that the University was being taken over by what he called "powerful, non-Christian elements in our population." In a pamphlet entitled "How to Capture a University," Beaty had asked, "Are the minds of our students to be guided by B'nal Writh... or by Soviet Moscow... or by assorted devotees of the little world power which usurps the name of 'Israel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S.M.U. Professor Accused by Board Of Anti-Semitism | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

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