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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the material is valuable, some markedly trivial. Thomas Little, the collection's custodian, has great respect for its value to thesis researchers into history topics, but will wryly admit that "it may big too big for its own good." The library was meant primarily to be a personal moment to Roosevelt; there has been, however, a certain amount of friction between its useful and its sentimental sides." Little explained in a recent report on the collection, "As a separate library closely attended in its own quarters by a librarian, it gave excellent service. Now, as an element...

Author: By Stephen L. Seftenberg, | Title: Widener Roosevelt Library: A Useful Monument | 3/10/1954 | See Source »

Meeting No. 7. Dirksen picked up the draft statement from its authors, repaired to the Senate cloakroom, where he huddled in Meeting No, 7 with McCarthy, Mundt and Potter. But the draft asked Joe to do three things he would obviously never consent to: 1) admit that he had abused Zwicker, 2) agree that Stevens had been given assurances of McCarthy's future good conduct, and 3) hint that calling Army officers in the Peress case might not be necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Oak & the Ivy | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Army medics in Washington checked reports from overseas research teams, had to admit that they could claim only a partial victory over the disease. They are confident that it is caused by a virus, but they have failed to isolate it. Though they feel certain that the virus is carried by chiggers or mites, which in turn are harbored by rodents, they have not been able to pin down the carriers. In preventing the disease, the most they can do is to have camp sites cleared in scorched-earth fashion in the hope of denying cover to rodents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manchu Mystery | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Committee on Admissions, in consultation with the Committee on Special Standing, may now admit students of "superior achievement and maturity" who have completed the eleventh grade of secondary school...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Faculty Approves Advance Standing Program, Allowing Special Status for Qualified Students | 3/3/1954 | See Source »

Although applications for the next year's class in the Graduate School of Business Administration are running at least 25 percent higher than they were last year, the Business School does not intend to admit a substantially larger class this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School to Have More Applicants, Same Enrollment | 3/2/1954 | See Source »

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