Word: barre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denton, 61, appear safe. Four Republicans are in perilously close races. In the Eleventh (Indianapolis) District, polls show four-term Eisenhower Republican Charles Brownson, 44, slightly behind Democratic Theater Owner Joseph Barr, 40, who is helped by an unusually strong Marion County Democratic ticket. In the Ninth (Aurora) District, lone-wolf Republican Earl Wilson, 52, running as usual without help from the state G.O.P. organization, needs a good rural turnout to hold his seat against Bartholomew County Sheriff Earl Hogan, 38-In the Fifth (Kokomo) District, archconservative, teetotaling Republican John Beamer, 61, is fighting for his life against vigorous, teetotaling...
...museum's painting classes were being led to the street, was soon leading search patrols to comb through the smoke-choked galleries. Museum Board Chairman Nelson Rockefeller donned a fireman's coat and helmet and plunged into the smoke to help. Director of Collections Alfred H. Barr Jr. led trapped museum staffers from the fifth floor to an adjacent brownstone roof. Other museum staff members led 500 visitors to the museum's rooftop restaurant or down the fire stairs. The fire's human toll: 30 firemen and visitors injured, one workman dead. Mute evidence...
...Author Barr's hero is one Professor Henry Schneider, cynical head of the history department at a Midwestern university. Like his colleagues, he is underpaid. Like many of them, he is henpecked. Unlike most of them, he wonders what happened to the old dream that leads men like him to try to set intellectual fires in the minds of junior Philistines who have no intention of getting singed. And since Purely Academic is cast as fiction, Henry also lusts after the Georgia peach whose husband is the drearily ambitious head of the economics department...
...Author Barr deals from a carefully stacked deck. His President Pomton spends most of his time buzzing around for money, and doesn't much care where it comes from because "every well-run university has a special washing machine for cleaning dirty money." Pomton's scheming secretary not only writes his speeches but has the final say on his successor when the prexy leaves for what can only be a drearier job. The sociology professor who covets Pomton's job is so tiresome a fellow that his very honesty and earnestness make him seem more a threat...
...questions are: Who will get the presidency, and who will land the Georgia peach when she leaves her husband? Henry gets her, but only for a night. Author Barr is not so academic that he forgets to undress and dress her, striptease fashion. Her final disposition, and the outcome of the struggle for the presidency are fairly routine. Along the way, U.S. students are denounced as dumb fat-cats, professors are cast as unimaginative hacks, trustees are pilloried as cynical businessmen whose least interest is education, and foundations are pictured as troughs fought over by piggish college presidents. Being...