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...promoting better health with his genuine Idaho baked potatoes." Nor is public-relations prose improving the quality of citations, which used to be honed to a fine salutatory precision by such masters as Yale's William Lyon Phelps, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler and Harvard's Abbott Lawrence Lowell. But more degrees than ever are conferred, and no one has more deftly defended the custom than Harvard's Lowell: ''Since the conferring of such degrees seems to increase the sum of human happiness, I'm in favor of it." Among those given...
...Europe much personal discussion goes on between Roman Catholic and Protestant scholars; Calvinist Theologian Oscar Cullman is welcome at the Vatican, and some of the best studies of Karl Earth have been written by Catholic scholars. In the U.S. there is a growing movement, sparked by Jesuit Father Walter Abbott of the weekly America, for the preparation of a common translation of the Bible...
Among 13 Pulitzer Prizes awarded in the arts, journalism and letters, a salute went to prolific Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (his second Pulitzer) for his biography, John Paul Jones. The hit musicomedy Fiorello!, written by indefatigable (at 70) George Abbott with Jerome Weidman, was the third musical ever to win such an award (the others: Of Thee I Sing and South Pacific). Outstanding in the field of international reporting: the New York Times's A. M. (for Abraham Michael) Rosenthal, who was ordered to leave Poland for probing too deeply into its internal problems. One of the least...
Fiorello! La Guardia, New York's most colorful mayor since the last Canarsie Indian chief, bursts into life again on the musical stage in a light and delightful evening planned by Director George Abbott, accomplished by Actor Tom-Bosley...
Harvard's crusty President (1909-33) Abbott Lawrence Lowell was a Ph.D. who developed an early aversion to the Ph.D. factory system. In a famed plea that scholars should be judged by deeds and not by degrees, he wrote: "We have developed into a mass production of mediocrity." A few years before retiring, Lowell began agitating for a more creative path into teaching ("to entice and fructify imagination"). It turned into Harvard's freewheeling Society of Fellows-a unique experiment in U.S. education...