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...Warren M. Little ’55 fondly recalls, Duehay used his power as the mayor of Cambridge to absolve the students of any charges of wrongdoing at the Class of 1955??s 25th reunion...
Drew, a reporter for Life Magazine, theorized—while a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1955??about filmmaking that used candid footage to present news. Using the shoulder-held, synchronized-sound camera newly invented by his associates Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker, he turned theoretical writing into 16mm film. Condensed to 26 minutes and relegated to local stations owned by the Time-Life corporation, Primary was a commercial flop, but its frank and intimate portrayal of political maneuvering and its use of new technology made cinematic history...
...Wells’ The Time Machine was like a saving for me. I became obsessed with the idea of traveling back in time so that I could save my father. He smoked heavily and lived life too fully, I suppose. An interesting coincidence is that he died in 1955??the same year that Albert Einstein died. As I read about Einstein and his idea that time is absolute, I clearly knew I had a lot to learn about math and science. But this started me on my journey of researching the concept of time travel...
...Something very young and hopeful went away that dawn,” he wrote in the Class of 1955??s 25th Anniversary Report, “and I watched it go from my window. For the next few years, the national malaise was locked in the Yard...
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