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...first court action was taken by a Supreme Court justice in Troy, who, upon the insistence of the Communist Party, issued a stay to the Regents and ordered them to show cause why they should not be permanently enjoined from enforcing the Feinberg Law. The New York City Teachers Union (C.I.O.) gained a similar stay against the city Board of Education from a Brooklyn justice of the Supreme Court...
...associates gathered at Columbia to celebrate the 30th anniversary of what had come to be known, somewhat long-windedly, as Columbia's Colloquium on Important Books. The course had grown since Erskine left it to devote himself to writing after his novel, The Private Life of Helen of Troy, became a bestseller. It had been extended, via Columbia's humanities course, to all Columbia College students. The idea had traveled to the University of Chicago (with Adler), to St. Johns College in Annapolis, Md. and to scores of other colleges. It had spread to thousands of classes...
...Mettle. In Troy, N.Y., Justice O'Connor suspended Robert Banks's sentence for public intoxication after the defendant confessed to drinking a concoction he called "scrap iron": a blend of sherry, rye and corn liquor...
Back in 1812, all the dock workers around Troy, N.Y. knew "Uncle Sam" Wilson. A tall, talkative meat packer with a friendly word for everybody, Uncle Sam was often on hand to see his Government-consigned barrels of pork and beef loaded on boats and sent down the Hudson for the war against the British. When one passenger asked an Irish watchman at the dock what the "U.S." stamped on each barrel meant, the watchman had a ready answer: "It must mean Uncle Sam ... he's feeding the army...
...Clinton, an army officer among the camp's airmen, had been a university student before the war. The scrap of paper blown to freedom by the wind made him think of the deus ex machina that so often solved Greek tragedies. His thoughts turned to the fall of Troy. Suddenly he "found himself running ... an idea racing through his mind . . . Peter-he must find Peter...