Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Widener 417, the study of Samuel Eliot Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus, is a veritable beehive of activity. Not only is the small office crowded with file cabinets and books, but it is used by a secretary and a research assistant as well as the professor...
...desk awaiting final touches. The volume will be a Book of the Month Club selection, although the professor does not yet know when it will be published. Currently Morison is actively engaged in writing a single-volume history of the United States entitled The Oxford History of the American People...
...Poet Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer-prizewinning play about Job in the guise of a modern American businessman. The language and the logic are a trifle threadbare, but the evening is richly cloaked in theatrical excitement...
...death of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles signals the end of an era in American foreign policy. While his influence on international affairs was not as lengthy as that of a Roosevelt or Churchill, the mark of his personality is stamped on the five-year period from his appointment in 1953 until the present...
Eisenhower formally directed that the American flag be flown at half staff on all government buildings at home and abroad until Dulles is buried...