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...draw $750,000 monthly from the Federal Government's Cuban Refugee Emergency Center. A few with jobs have started returning their checks with touching letters of thanks, but so many newcomers need help that the $5,000,000 federal fund is disappearing rapidly. Last week Florida Governor Farris Bryant flew to Washington, asked Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff for $8,000,000 to help make up for the $9,909,000 his state has spent to school 10,000 Cuban children. ''This situation is visited upon Florida because of its geographical location, and is burdening...
Trembling only slightly, Chief Counsel Ashbrook Bryant looked over the upper rims of his glasses into the robin's-egg eyes of the witness, and asked: "In plain words, what happened...
...Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, looking for all the world like a split-bearded king, who later in the day gave the best reply to Bryant's question. "There is a moral fiber that is not there today in TV," he said. "Heads of networks are individually decent, sensible and intelligent. But they pursue the wrong for the benefit of profit. Television doesn't represent ourselves to ourselves. It should not dedicate itself to the least common denominator. Every country which did that collapsed. That's my quibble with Communism. It aims everything at the least common denominator...
There were also novelties in other extra-curricular activities which added to the confusion of that freshman year. Departing from the traditional political disinterestedness of American college students, several undergraduate political organizations sprang into existence on the Harvard campus and the elections of 1908--between Taft and Bryant--were followed with interest...
...president opened the sophomore year of the Class of '36 and Harvard's 298th with the statement that "a University is primarily a group of creative scholars." James Bryant Conant 'I4 added, "Universities are the custodians of the great spiritual values which the human race has so laboriously won. . . ." An Alumni Bulletin survey proclaimed that Harvard men had written 308 books between June and December, and the Harvard Medical School celebrated its 150th anniversary with an address in Sanders Theatre from President-Emeritus Lowell. The Geographical Laboratory was getting daily messages from Rear Admiral Byrd in Little America, and President...