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Perfect Crime. In Atlantic City, N.J., on trial for stabbing Charles Gorham, Willie May Baker revealed that she had since married her victim, went free after paying a $100 fine...
Douglas' Ex. On the same day, the committee began questioning Mrs. Dorothy W. Douglas, 63, onetime (1915-30) wife of Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas and a onetime teacher at Smith College. Though Mrs. Douglas had been named by Smith Professor Robert Gorham Davis (TIME, March 9) as having been a Communist in 1938 and 1939, she too took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment...
Much or Little. In the committee room, where the main bout took place, there was an air of determined calm. Robert Gorham Davis, Smith College English professor and first witness at the open hearings, patiently repeated a personal history. He had joined the Communist Party in 1937 while teaching at Harvard; two years later, disillusioned by the Nazi-Soviet pact, he quit. Party members, he said, had tried to recruit faculty members, not to influence students. Now, in his opinion, "the influence of Communists is very slight" on the teaching profession. With some reluctance, the slim, spectacled teacher identified...
...Palfrey Award was established in 1821 by John Gorham Palfry, a member of the Class...
Several members of the Mountaineering Club will ski and practice ice climbing during the vacation, operating from their base cabin on the flank of Mt. Washington. The H.M.C. cabin is reached by driving to Pinkham Notch, halfway between North Conway and Gorham, N. H. and then climbing with skins two and a quarter miles up Hoot Spur...