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...conceded much of its speed to the medical department. Start quarterback Bill DeGraaf's status is still questionable and Art Sosenko will probably start. Certain doubts and a good deal of tape surround the ribs of both fullback Guy Bedrossian and halfback Dick Meade, while tackle Jim Van Buren will watch from the sidelines. This, plus the pre-season loss of star end Stan Intihar and Bruce Brenner leave Coach Lefty James with a good starting team, but far from the one which won the Ivy title last year and was expected to repeat this season...

Author: By David L. Halserstam, | Title: Crimson Determined to Upset Favored Cornell | 10/9/1954 | See Source »

...Could we only hit upon a few great principles," wrote a fellow Democrat to Martin Van Buren during the campaign of 1828, "we should succeed beyond a doubt." In the campaign year 1954, the same politico might have begun: "If we only knew what to do with the principles at hand, we should succeed beyond a doubt," and his prescription would fit either party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Principles v. Fragments | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...three-room cabin clinging to the side of Powell Mountain in Cracker's Neck, Va., Bessie Dickenson sat at her quilting one night last week while her husband, Van Buren ("Dave") Dickenson, gaunt and sick at 72, listened to the radio. Suddenly Dave called out: "Bessie, listen to this. It says one of those boys has changed his mind and is coming home. I just know it's Ed." Said Bessie: "I just know it's Ed too, Dave." Later she mused, "Of course, I'll bet every mother listening thought the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: One Changed His Mind | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...just couldn't be." "They're holding him against his will." In Alden, Minn., the mother of Pfc. Richard Tenneson, 21, told reporters, "If I could talk to him for ten minutes, I could at least make a dent in that kind of thinking." Mr. & Mrs. Van Buren Dickenson, the parents of Corporal Edward Dickenson, 23, sat in stunned sadness in their home in Cracker's Neck, Va. like a study in American gothic. "I won't believe anything except that my boy wants to return home," said Mrs. Dickenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Twenty-Three Americans | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...York. The commander of the Washington claimed the slaves and their ship as salvage. So did a retired sea captain, who had palavered a little with Cinqué near Montauk. Ruiz and Montes claimed everything for themselves, and the Spanish government endorsed their claim. President Martin Van Buren made up his mind that the Spaniards had the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Could Not Be a Slave | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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