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...jury investigation into Portland rackets. The first to be served with subpoenas were Reporters Turner and Lambert and the Oregonian's Editor Herbert Lundy. Before they could be called, Oregon Governor Elmo Smith summarily took the investigation out of Langley's hands and put Attorney General Robert Thornton and the state police in charge...
...that he will run again. But the G.O.P., facing hard opposition from Brannan, is expected to urge Senator Millikin to withdraw in favor of a candidate who could conduct a more vigorous campaign. A leading choice of the politicos, if Gene Millikin agrees to step down: Texas-born Dan Thornton, cattle rancher and former (1951-54) governor of Colorado...
Freshman 150's Stroke: Bill Leatherbee; seven: Michael Adair; six: James Swan; five: Jon Cabot; four: John Wunderlich; three: Jim Noble; two: Thornton Clark; cox: Marlo Bryan...
...year-old Irish-born Samuel Beckett, who was once a sort of secretary to James Joyce, is one more of those writings that pose philosophic question marks with the emphasis of exclamation points. Like Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Kafka's The Castle and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, Waiting for Godot makes who's who-and sometimes what's what-a kind of guessing game...
...four chalices which will be used in the service are kept in Fogg Museum. Records there indicate that the Corporation voted on November 20, 1814, "that the President (John Thornton Kirkland), Dr. Lathrop (John Lathrop, Secretary to the Board of Overseers), and Professor Hedge (Levi Hedge, College Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, and Alfred Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity) be authorized to procure a service of plate suitable for the Communion at the expense of the Corporation." New silver plate and glass cups were recently purchased for use in addition to the historic vessels...