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...South Coventry, Conn. last week, a crowd of 2,000 gathered in the meadows and lawns of an old homestead to honor Nathan Hale, the young patriot-spy of the American Revolution on the 200th anniversary of his birth. In a large circus tent near the old Hale house, greetings from President Eisenhower were read, and Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff praised Hale's bravery and sacrifice. Local churchwomen, dressed in the costumes of the Revolution, handed out coffee and cake, and the 20-piece Fife and Drum Corps from Stony Creek, in sleeveless red jackets, black leggings...
Latin at 5 a.m. When he was 14, in 1769, Nathan Hale and his older brother Enoch,* left the Coventry homestead and, riding horseback through the September countryside, reached Yale College, 60 miles away, in two days. At Yale young Nathan was a bright student and something of an athlete. The mark of his record broad jump was preserved on the college green for years (later, when he was in the Army, Hale astonished soldiers in his company by kicking a ball over the treetops of the Bowery...
...Force Chief of Staff Nathan Farragut Twining, 57, was reappointed for two years, and General Maxwell D. Taylor, also 53, had been nominated earlier (TIME, May 23) to take over from Army Chief of Staff Matthew B. Ridgway, 60, when he retires June...
...million other people are worshiping as I am-united as one body, worshiping one God"). After him came Sophomore Judy Sklar. who bluntly announced: "I am an American and a Jew and I am very proud to be both." "What does the Negro want?" asked Negro Graduate Student Nathan Huggins. "If there is any single answer I think it lies in the definition of the word dignity." And so it went through other speeches and an hour-long question period afterward. Much to his own surprise, the baldheaded truck driver stayed the evening...
...appointment of Nathan Pusey as President in 1953 was given by Eliot as one of the main reasons for his continued confidence in the Divinity School. He called Pusey "a born and bred liberal and a most competent administrator...