Word: auditions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign the report) for not attending sessions regularly, adding that Hickenlooper had read through only nine of the 81 loyalty files, and Lodge only twelve. Lodge promptly cracked back that the whole investigation was "superficial and inconclusive," too intent on "proving or disproving individual charges" to take a thorough audit of disloyalty...
...Music department's most appreciative students was Arthur Conant, the building's janitor for many years. Conant, who on occasion was confused with the President, used to audit courses by listening outside the door. The Classical and Romantic composers were his favorites, and he knew them by heart; when the department instituted a course in medieval music, Conant complained bitterly about the lugubrious sounds...
Sixty-one Methodist ministers from Illinois journeyed into Washington last week for a first-hand briefing on the problems of the cold war and the welfare state. Before the briefing began, all 61 sat down to answer a list of 25 questions-"an audit of mid-century America." For the next three days they shuttled busily back & forth from the State Department to a conference with Labor Mediator Cyrus Ching, to Capitol Hill to interview members of the Congress, to a friendly visit with Missouri Baptist Harry Truman. Afterwards ten of the visitors sat down and answered the same questions...
Both before their audit and afterward, the Methodists agreed that the U.S. was pursuing a "fairly intelligent" policy abroad, that the trend to a welfare state was "a little extreme" but in the right direction, and that the whole world seemed to be on its way toward "a confused state somewhere between peace and a war of annihilation...
...University's top experts on the Far East. Reischaner lectures for the first six weeks of the spring term on Japan; Fairbank finishes out the year with the recent history of the Far East. A full course, Soc. Sci.111 cannot be entered now, but it makes an ideal audit (Hunt...