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...York Correspondent Christopher Byron visited Joan Abbott and her seven children in Alloway, N.J. She is studying nursing, and he accompanied her through a hectic day of classes, preparing dinner, chauffeuring children to St. Valentine's Day parties and studying for her courses. We chose the Abbotts to represent the many families who at long last knew that the husband and father was coming home soon. The cover story on the mood and meaning of the long-delayed, long-hoped-for event is the work of Associate Editor Lance Morrow, who has written much about the travail of America...
Until the moment they hear the phone ring, the families must wait. "It isn't like waiting for Christmas, when you know it will come on Dec. 25," says Joan Abbott of Alloway, N.J. "We have no deadline...
...Abbott, who has raised her seven children alone for six years, considers herself an optimist. When Joe Abbott was shot down in April of 1967, there was a period of 2½ years of not knowing whether or not he had made it. In November 1969 she first got word that he was a prisoner...
...time Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33 (General Nonfiction 1963--The Guns of August and 1972--Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 came through Radcliffe at a time when women weren't allowed on The Crimson A alter J. Bate'39. Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the Humanities, who won the Pulitzer for Biography in 1964 (John Keats) was too busy studying undergraduate to comp for The Crimson. And obviously with a certain amount of snobbery, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, didn't bother to comp...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell and James Michael Curley took their share of flak from The Crimson. In both cases, it seems, the personality of the attacked was as important to the editorialists as their programs. Lowell in particular was challenged for his autocratic manner, and his seeming indifference to the College's public image. When he deigned to discuss his House Plan with the press. The Crimson found the occasion surprising enough to make it the subject of an editorial...