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...British newsmen grew hotter & hotter. Most of them were very, very tired of the stalls and rebuffs they met in trying to send out what news they could get under Russia's peculiar "freedom of the press." The New York Times's able, soft-voiced Brooks Atkinson found "humorous stories ... especially difficult to get approved. [They] arouse inordinate suspicion." And it was not that the correspondents were anti-Russian ; one of the complainers was Anna Louise (I Change Worlds) Strong, onetime editor of an English-language Communist paper in Moscow. Against Russia's box-rigid censorship, they...
...Slated for Moscow was an amateur ornithologist and part-time farmer, the sensitive and erudite dean of Manhattan's drama critics, Brooks Atkinson, who learned about foreign reporting in censorship-cramped Chungking. (When Broadway calls Atkinson again, Drew Middleton, not so long ago an obscure A.P.man and now the Times's "find" of the war, was likely to move in from Germany to succeed...
Mayor John H. Corcoran, City Manager John B. Atkinson, and eight Cambridge City Councillors, including Michael A. Sullivan, will be guests of President Conant and the Corporation this evening at the third annual Harvard Cambridge dinner, which will be held in the rooms of the Society of Fellows in Eliot House...
Professor Gropius added his doubts to those of his colleagues, George H. Perkins '26, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Chairman of the Department of Regional Planning, and Martin Wagner, associate professor of Regional Planning, and said he thought the School for Architecture and John B. Atkinson, city manager of Cambridge, were not working toward the same object...
...know what Mr. Atkinson would do with our plans," declared Professor Gropius, he would throw them in the wastebasket. Most of his plans and those of the regional planning board intend merely to modify that ugly box in the middle of the Square but the only hope for solution is by a complete rebuilding of the Square. As it stands now, Harvard Square is one of the worst in the country...