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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME is aboard the Kennedy bandwagon. This free advertising for Senator John Kennedy is of great benefit to the Democrats and more important to the Catholic Church. If Kennedy is nominated by the "Damn-old-rats," I propose Paul Blanshard as Republican nominee...
...from it. What Reuther and his fellow A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders called for as labor's 1958 platform was 1) higher wages, plus 2) "increased leisure" through shorter work weeks with no pay reduction, plus 3) bigger health, welfare and unemployment-benefit programs. In short: more pay, less work. When the economy was booming, Reuther had called for wage boosts to catch up with higher prices. Now, with the economy slumping, he called for wage boosts as the cure for a recession caused-in the official A.F.L.C.I.O. view-by a lack of purchasing power...
...contrary, most of Harvard's educational facilities benefit undergraduates only indirectly. Most of a professor's time goes to his graduate students and his research, not to his lectures and office hours or even the meeting of committees concerned with undergraduate affairs. If the academic profession is subsidizing anyone it is the graduate student. The small courses, the obscure and ancient volumes, the complex scientific apparatus are only really useful to the graduate student...
Frank H. Westheimer, Research Professor of Chemistry, received the largest individual grant, $42,000. Others to benefit from the Foundation grants include George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Herbert W. Levi, Associate Curator of Arachnology; R. Duncan Luce, lecturer on Social Relations; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Chairman of the Institute for Research in Experimental and Applied Botany...
...Lyon Phelps, "at whom the intellectuals used to laugh but whose enthusiasms were really contagious." The only present-day reviewer contagious enough for Knopf is the New York Times's notoriously Phelpsian Orville Prescott. Says Knopf: Prescott can "make them buy the book he praises. We would all benefit enormously were there a dozen like him. Whether they were sound critics wouldn't matter so much to the book trade-not to start with, at any rate...