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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey some of the city's monumental figures and their various states of inundation. William Ewart Gladstone: "The melancholy truth is that [he] does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left eye." The situation in Parliament Square: "Disraeli, Peel and Derby, with the treetops above them, suffer more than Palmerston and Smuts in the open. Yet Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...eight times, with four of the bobbles being recovered by Harvard. Quarterback Charlie Ravenel bounced a pass off end Hank Keohane's chest and into the hands of center Pete Eliades on the Lion one-foot line to set up the first score. Ravenel tallied first, followed by Tom Lawson, Albie Cullen, and Glenn Haughie on a pass from Ron Johanson. Halfback Chet Boulris' punting kept the Lions at bay, and Boulris gained 66 yards rushing on 12 carries...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Harvard vs. Columbia, 1877-1959 | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...sale, distribution or printing of obscene literature, has been under attack for years by physicians and their patients, but is regularly kept in force by the state senate, strongly supported by the large urban concentrations of Roman Catholic constituents. The New Haven ministers -the Rev. C. Lawson Willard of Trinity Episcopal Church, Luther R. Livingston of Bethesda Lutheran Church, and George Teague of the First Methodist Church-declared that they were "bound by the teachings of the church and our c n religious beliefs to counsel married parishioners on the use of contraceptive devices and to advise and counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Birth & Death | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Handicaps include a 20-yard pool rather the customary 25. This physical obstacle is sometimes a hard, but necessary, adjustment. Other difficulties are forcefully displayed in the persons of Rog Neckton, a capable 220- and 440-yard freestyler, Dave Carrington, a 2:14 200- yard backstroker, Bill Lawson, the Gymnasts' co-captain and New England inter-collegiate diving champion, and Jonathan Owen, also co-captain and an outstanding performer in the 200-yard butterfly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity to Encounter Springfield Swimmers | 2/11/1959 | See Source »

...Council has announced the election of James D. Lorenz, Jr. '60, of Eliot House and Dayton, Ohio, as president. Charles E. Lister '60, of Leverett House and Miami, Fla., was elected vice-president; Kenneth C. Aldrich '60, of Winthrop House and Oklahoma City, Okla., director of competitions; Carl D. Lawson '60, of Leverett House and Boise, Idaho, corresponding secretary; and Roger M. Leed '61, of Kirkland House and Longview, Wash., home secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Choose Lorenz as Head | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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