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...prove that gentle, idealistic Governor Pearson was somehow a blackguard. Witness Yates, ousted Pearson assistant and a prime instigator of 'the investigation, produced an affidavit from an Anglican clergyman named Anson whom he described as "dean of the white ministers in the Islands." The Rev. E. G. Anson bore witness that Governor Pearson was "an awful liar, thief and hypocrite." Witness Yates also offered a letter he had received from a Roman Catholic priest named Leo St. Laurence. Wrote Father St. Laurence: ''It looks as if it is now a war, 'Pearsonites versus the Catholic Church...
...doubt it was suicide," said the police officer who found Ray Long in his Beverly Hills bedroom last week, dead in his pajamas, a hole in the roof of his mouth, a small-bore rifle nearby...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia dispatched a scow to Long Island Sound to dump 620,000 slugs- representing a loss of $31,000 to the city-owned Independent Subway System alone -into the sea. The assorted slugs weighed three tons, consisted mainly of lead, iron, aluminum, brass, tin, linoleum. Some bore the slogan: "Roosevelt for President...
What is more important in the present situation is the method of attack followed by University Hall. There can be no doubt but that the action of the trustees bore considerable connection with official opinion. A statement from Mr. Woodward, secretary to President Conant, however, said that the University "has taken no action." It is clear that the University was thus at fault on two scores; first, they did not accept responsibility for an action which they had instigated, and secondly, they did not deal directly with the students concerned...
...distinctly minor but nevertheless appropriate innovation is the University's decision to change the name of Robinson Hall Annex to Hunt Hall. For years the old Fogg Museum bore the former top-heavy title, and it is quite fitting that the quarters of the School of City Planning should honor the man whose name is one of the watchwords of American architecture...