Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Princeton has announced the receipt of a half million dollar gift to establish the Albert G. Milbank Professorship of International Law. President Dodds of Princeton said the new chair will strengthen the recently established center for research on international political institutions...
...interest from the gift will pay the salary of the professor holding the chair, and also miscellaneous expense. The money was given by the late Albert G. Milbank, a member of the Princeton Class...
After visiting her old friend and teacher Jean Sibelius in Finland, bright-eyed Antonio Brico, 48, Denver conductor, flew on to French Equatorial Africa to see another old musical friend, Organist-Physician Albert Schweitzer, who had cabled: "You've always wanted to see my hospital. Get yourself a yellow-fever shot and a sun helmet and come...
...recalled the manner, if not the grandeur, of T. S. Eliot's religious pageant, The Rock; they also showed a humor and a lyricism that was Fry's own. Eliot himself was impressed by The Tower. Another pageant by Fry, Thursday's Child, was performed at Albert Hall, with Queen Mary in attendance. Fry, who had reluctantly rented a morning coat for the occasion, was supposed to be presented to Her Majesty, but as the royal party entered, he got trapped behind the door...
University officials jittered in alarm. It was bad enough to have a political controversy intruded into the election. But to make matters worse, it was the first time since 1847, when Queen Victoria's beloved Prince Albert won in a squeak over the popular Earl of Powis, that the chancellorship had ever been contested...