Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman's crack about too many "Byrds in the Congress" set off indignant flappings and cawings over Capitol Hill. The old cry of "purge" rang through its tiled corridors. The President was annoyed that the crack got out; he hadn't meant his caller (A.V.C. Chairman Gil Harrison) to repeat it. At his news conference he refused to amplify the remark, declared that he was not interested in purges. The people, he said tartly, would take care of that...
...Freshman Orientation Committee will be headed next year by Melvin Howard Chalfen '47, of Cambridge. David Harrison '51, of Lakewood, Now Jersey and Kirkland House, was chosen secretary and Robert Paul Hyde '51, of Belmont, treasurer of next year's Society...
...Manhattan, the Perry Awards (Broadway's "Oscars"), for "notable contributions to the current season," were handed out for the third year. The little silver medallions went to Rex Harrison (Anne of the Thousand Days) and Martita Hunt (The Madwoman of Chaittot) for dramatic acting; Arthur Miller for writing Death of a Salesman, and Ray Bolger (Where's Charley?) and Nanette Fabray (Love Life) for their musicomedy performances...
Infantry on Horseback. His eleven generals (not necessarily the best), from the Revolution's Nathanael Greene to Omar Bradley, include several that few readers ever heard of, e.g., Indian Fighter Richard Mentor Johnson and Grant's divisional commander, James Harrison Wilson. Each, says Pratt, operated on the simple basis that "nobody is going to win a battle until somebody goes in there on foot and wins it with a hand...
Third Period--Scoring: W. Riley (D) 8:15; Oss (D) (Crowley) 18:55. Penalties: Bailey, Oss, Kerivan, Harrison, Kittredge, Garrity, W. Riley