Word: whitfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Papers, Yale University and the American Philosophical Society, aided by a grant from LIFE, expect the project to run to 40 volumes appearing over the next 15 years. For the past 5½ years, Editor Leonard W. Labaree, Farnam Professor of History at Yale, and his associate, Whitfield J. Bell Jr., have combed libraries and personal collections from Leningrad to Hawaii for any letter or document written to or by Franklin. They have amassed more than 27,000 photocopies of manuscripts and pieces of manuscripts...
...loss and used revenues from its other newspapers to finance the loss. Harte-Hanks lawyers argued that free competition, not a conspiracy, had made Greenville a one-newspaper town. Greenville, they said, is too small to support two dailies. Last week in Dallas U.S. District Judge T. Whitfield Davidson dismissed the antitrust suit against Harte-Hanks. Said Judge Davidson: "Justice Holmes has said that a man has the right to set up a shop in a small village which can support but one shop of the kind, although there may be one shop of the kind in town. It then...
...best acting jobs in that of Whitfield Connor playing Victor Milgrim, the Mephistophelean movie producer. Jason Robards Sr. gives an equally moving performance as Hallidy's benevolent publisher. This is the senior Robards' first appearance on the stage in nineteen years. The rest of the supporting roles are adequately handled, as is David Pressman's direction. The multi-purpose sets of Ben Edwards deserve special attention...
...behind Australia's Merv Lincoln (4:06.1) and U.C.L.A. Senior Bob Seaman. In the 440-yd. run, remarkable Reggie Pearman, 33, ran the fastest quarter mile of his life (0:46.4) to win the title just ten years after he won his first A.A.U. championship by beating Mal Whitfield...
...Bedford whaler, the John Howland, spotted the five starving Japanese who had given up all hope after nearly seven months. Having taken the castaways aboard, Captain William H. Whitfield went right on chasing whales. To Manjiro, whose usual catch was bass, whaling was a mighty experience. Quick, curious and alert, the young lad picked up English rapidly, learned the whaler's tasks and pitched in with a will. Captain Whitfield, a widower, took such a fancy to him that he brought him home (Fairhaven, Mass.), changed his name to John Mung, put him in school and took...