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...November 1985, the Citizens' Stamp AdvisoryCommittee, which designates new commemorativeissues, denied a proposal to honor Harvard's 350thanniversary on the basis of the 1971 ruling, whichsought to prevent a flood of requests by collegesfor such an honor. After considerable prodding anda barrage of letters, however, the committee,which approves only 40 to 60 of the 4000 stampsuggestions it receives annually, agreed thathonoring John Harvard himself would not beinappropriate...
...September 8 issue of the magazine containsportrait of a chubby-faced and baggy-eyedUniversity President Derek C. Bok amidst enduringsymbols of academia and veritas on the cover, anda trio of Harvard stories inside. The editorialcontent was handled by Porterfield, Time'seducation editor, and, not surprisingly, itfocuses on the educational side of Harvard life...
Thompson graduated summa cum laude from Williamand Mary. He was a graduate student at Harvard anda member of the Government Department's juniorfaculty until 1968, when he accepted a Princetontenure post. He also served as a consultant to theU.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics and othergovernment agencies...
Ochs' chosen instrument in his quest for excellence was Carr Van Anda, the icily intellectual managing editor who once spotted a mathematical error in an Albert Einstein lecture that the Times was about to print. Einstein gratefully acknowledged the mistake. Van Anda also had an eye for circulation-building stunts, such as the Times's sponsorship of polar expeditions by Commodore Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen...
Together, Ochs and Van Anda made the Times a Victorian paradigm of probity and thoroughness, emphasizing diplomatic and national political reporting and eschewing titillating ac counts of crime and scandal. But not all crime and scandal...