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...tidy office in Appleton, Wis. one autumn day, a lean, brown-haired man sat down at his desk to face an irksome task. Nathan Marsh Pusey was writing his biography for the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard, and it was with much of the agony that H. M. Pulham Esq. went through ("a good deal like something on a tombstone . . . never did like writing . . .") that he dutifully recorded his life. He noted that he had three chil dren, was president of Appleton's Lawrence College (enrollment: 800), that "liberal education is my chief concern...
...least 16 men died trying to scale Everest, and eleven expeditions failed to reach its 29,002-foot virgin summit, although at least six men got within the last, breathless 1,000 feet. What was needed to conquer it? That was the question facing Colonel John Hunt in the autumn of 1952, when he took the leadership of a British climbing expedition. In The Conquest of Everest, Mountaineer Hunt gives a cleanly written, technician's answer, and describes the behind-the-scenes planning that led to victory...
Questioned about speculation that he might not return from Oxford at all, Finley immediately disclaimed any such intention. "Of course not," he said, "They wouldn't invite me and I wouldn't want to stay permanently. I'll definitely be back a year from next autumn...
Your cover story on Harry Dexter White is a beginning answer, appropriate and timely, to the urgent public need for background information and clarification on what so much of the press glibly termed (in the autumn of 1952) "the mess in Washington." More must come, a great deal more . . . I see three great areas of need in this clarification: 1) a study of the term "McCarthyism" . . . 2) a study of the "climate of treason" . . .3) 3 study of the unsound philosophies of social reform that made it possible to undermine democratic principles of loyalty, of patriotism, and of objective morality...
There was a crisp wind blowing up Tokyo Bay and Vag watched the palm trees some Admiral's wife ordered planted bending crazily in the chilling breeze. Somehow, thought Vag, those should be elm trees. Funny thing how these cool autumn days in Japan brought back memories of Cambridge in the fall--how on cold November days Vag speculated whether or not he should shift from chinos to gray flannels. Vag remembered that, of course, he never did. Even those Japanese kids were beginning to resemble. Harvard Square urchins. But, decided Vag, the propositions they were screaming were even more...