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...Jacob R. Brackman '65, of Adams and Great Neck, N.Y., has been awarded the annual Dana Reed Prize for distinguished writing in a Harvard undergraduate publication. He received the award for character sketches of Ginsberg and Martin Luther King, which appeared in the CRIMSON...
...would have written sooner to thank you for Jake Brackman's sketch of me but I have had my hands full trying to persuade by tailor not to sue the CRIMSON for libel. I have never owned, or even been tempted to rent, a suit "with wide stripes and wider lapels." I must also, in justice to past employers for whom I retain a deep and grateful affection, correct his story that I started my own news-letter because I was "tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print." On the contrary I started my Weekly...
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...Harvard seniors are: Richard M. Blau, Jacob R. Brackman, Peter M. Briggs, Gregory Brumfield, James C. Burrows, James T. Campen, Eric G. Chipman, John D. Fay, Alan Gilbert, Lenn E. Goodman, Stephen H. Goodwin, Robert J. Gorden, Anthony Graham-White, James E. Haber, Harry T. Hunt, David J. Israel, Richard Jacobson, Dewitt H. John Jr., David S. Kershaw, James R. King, Elliot M. Klein, David M. Kotz, Robert M. Leonhardt, and James I. Lepowsky...
...also annoyed by something I thought I read between the lines, perhaps inaccurately, in Mr. Brackman's article. Mr. Brackman and other, more radical "white liberals" seem occasionally to slip into almost wistful speculation that the American Negro may lead a "radical social upheaval" or "social revolution" which would then presumably benefit all Americans of a radical persuasion. Personally, it strikes me that most American Negroes would be very happy to settle for a nice home in an integrated, middle-class suburb, if only white society would allow them to buy the home, and to make enough money to afford...