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A delegation of monks from Moscow’s Danilov Monastery—including the spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church—is due to arrive in Cambridge today for a brief trip to see the Lowell House bells and ask the University to return them to the...
“I personally would like to see the bells returned,” Eck said at the time. “There are a lot of steps that need to be taken, and the purpose of this discussion is to talk about those steps.”
The bells were donated to Harvard in 1930 by American industrialist Charles R. Crane, who bought them from the Soviet Union, which took the bells from the monastery in the 1920s as part of its campaign against the Church.
“Talks on the return of 18 ancient bells...will take place in Harvard State University,” wrote Pravda—one of the country’s most prominent newspapers—apparently mistakenly associating Harvard with its own leading universities, which are state-run...
DIED. CHARLES BROWN, 82, understated former chairman and CEO of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T), who headed the company during the historic breakup of Ma Bell; in Richmond, Va. Brown, who spent his entire 40-year career at the company, opposed the breakup. But in 1982 he and his...