Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BERNARD J. JAMES Director Center for Programs in Government Administration University of Chicago Chicago...
Died. Sailing Wolfe Baruch. 88, retired stockbroker who. with Brother Bernard M. Baruch, hired a locomotive on the Fourth of July 1898. steamed from the Jersey shore into holiday-forsaken Manhattan to cable huge buy orders to the London Stock Exchange on news of the great U.S. naval victory off Cuba in the Spanish-American War, a victory that, as they expected, touched off a great buying spree on Wall Street next day. skyrocketing prices in the U.S. stocks that the Baruchs had bought at low prices in London while others were too busy celebrating; after a long illness...
Veteran Author Frank Swinnerton is 78, about the same age as the leading character in this new novel, which is his 35th and one of his finest. A friend of such giants as Bernard Shaw. E. M. Forster and John Galsworthy. Swinnerton's talent was somehow overshadowed by his contemporaries. H. G. Wells ruefully confessed to Arnold Bennett that Swinnerton "achieves a perfection that you and I never get within streets of." In Death of a Highbrow, the perfection is still evident in the cool, muscular style, and in his merciless view of man's behavior relieved...
...sponsor a variety of social and intellectual projects. South House, composed of Barnard, Bertram, and Briggs Halls, held an art show; North House (Comstock, Holmes, and Moors) invited Norman Thomas to speak; East House (Cabot, Eliot, Whitman, and the Jordan co-operatives) put on a production of George Bernard Show's Heart-break House...
Also at 9 a.m., for those who are up, two Harvard professors and two members of the Class of 1937 will explore new frontiers in science, at Burr B. Edward H. Ahrens, Jr. '37; I. Bernard Cohen '37, professor of the History of Science; Robert P. Levine, associate professor of Biology; and Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy, will speak...