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Miss Mary Varian Riblet was sitting quietly at home that evening, minding her business. Her business was mapping out her spring teaching schedule at Long Island City's William Cullen Bryant high school. The telephone rang. An excited relative reported that the name "Riblet" had just been used (as the name of a schoolmarm just like Miss Riblet) on the Duffy's Tavern program (NBC, Fri., 8:30-9 p.m., E.S.T.). But even worse, Ed Gardner, who portrays Archie and makes insult his profitable stock in trade, had slurringly called this character "Old Pianolegs...
Harvard had led the swing to cafeteria-style learning (where students pick & choose what they want to learn) in the days of President Charles W. (Five-Foot Shelf) Eliot. And it was Harvard, under President James Bryant Conant, that in August most clearly denned the swing back-to required courses, a "core curriculum." Colgate was already at it when Harvard's famed report on General Education in a Free Society appeared. Princeton, Yale and a score of other colleges have likewise heralded a new dawn of coherence...
...Congress has more books than Harvard. Almost half of Harvard's 4,702,000 are housed in the Widener Library, a massive, pillared, $2,000,000 building which squats amid more graceful red brick neighbors in the Harvard Yard. But Widener is too big, says President James Bryant Conant. What Harvard needs now, says he, is a smaller, handier library...
...cover had been tempting. The nation was aching for an excuse to quit worrying about being blown up en masse. Both the President and the Army demanded immediate passage. So did an impressive knot of scientists-OSRD's Dr. Vannevar Bush, Harvard's President, Dr. James Bryant Conant and the Manhattan Project's Major General Leslie R. Groves...
...greatest city in the world." Thousands from the city clambered aboard his ship. Aboard the destroyer Foote, six-month-old Timothy Sexton came face to face for the first time in his life with his seaman father, home from the Pacific. On a New Orleans dockside R. H. Bryant and his wife stood and looked at the spot on the quarter-deck of the battleship Mississippi where their son Jim had died. They wept and went away...