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Canceled Checks. As for Kansas City, after a federation of churches signed a $127,350 contract with Alinsky, at least ten leading financial contributors to one of the city's foremost Episcopal parishes refused to sign any more pledge checks; one millionaire eliminated a fat bequest to the parish from his will. Undeterred, Alinsky publicly described the city's Negro area as a "zoo," got embroiled in an acrimonious argy-bargy with Board of Education President Homer Wadsworth, who declared: "Alinsky has the smell of the '30s about him." Retorted Alinsky: "We still have the smell...
...spoke to him, however, Neustadt had already been tapped by Senator Henry Jackson, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, for a post-election assignment. Jackson, who was also chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on National Security Staffing and Operations, was alarmed by testimony indicating that Eisenhower, as his bequest to the nation, might propose change in the organization of the Presidency, especially the institution of a team of grand viziers to be called the First Secretary and the Executive Assistant to the President. In order to combat such proposals, Jackson had asked Neustadt to prepare a memorandum...
Twenty-five years ago, Charles Warren '95, chaired the Overseers' Visiting Committee on the History Department and was shocked to find that Harvard students were apathetic about American history and that Harvard professors taught very few courses in the field. His widow's $7 million bequest could change that, but the first tentative plans for the administration of the funds indicate that it will...
Handlin has indicated that the number of instructorships and assistant professorships in American History will be increased by the bequest. These young post-doctoral students will not only staff courses taught by senior faculty members but will also for the first time be able to offer courses of their own. This would seem to satisfy even Charles Warren, but it is doubtful that appointing junior faculty can solve the History Department's major problem: the History Department, among others, recently has had great difficulty retaining junior faculty members until their appointments expire...
...wiser use of the Warren bequest--and one more in keeping with Charles Warren's interests--would be to improve the quality as well as the range of instruction in American history by endowing a few new professorships instead of hiring many new instructors. Presumably courses taught by professors would be better than courses taught by instructors. The greater chances for promotion might induce bright young scholars to remain here as well...