Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President, now informed, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Attorney General William Rogers. The White House press lobby began to fill, and the pressure piled up against Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton, associate press secretary, who was standing in for Hagerty. At 8:55 Mrs. Wheaton put out a bulletin that the President was "progressing very well,", but she did not explain from what. At 10:25 a.m., with the strain beginning to show, Mrs. Wheaton then pronounced the first public words on the President's illness that sounded serious. "His doctors," she said, "are making a further evaluation...
...controversy began with an attack by William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, in the October 12 edition of the Alumni Bulletin. Hocking claimed that the "frontal pattern of the new house suggests a calico print." He added that it is "devoid of taste, devoid of interest, devoid of imagination, and devoid of dignity," and concluded that "unfortunately it will last a long time...
...Bulletin published a series of letters supporting Hocking a month later. John P. Riesman '34 protested against the "dull, tasteless, misfit building which is about to be dumped next to handsome Leverett House and behind our lovely Dunster House. What are we trying to do now, impress the moderns, or shock the oldsters?" he asked...
Seymour E. Harris '20, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, said that the move was designed to "put a little pressure on colleges to raise pay." Harris has written an article on salaries and fringe benefits of American professors which will be published in the AAUP Bulletin...
...There will be no presentation parties after 1958," said the palace bulletin that put the signature on their death warrant. "The Queen proposes to hold additional garden parties in order that larger numbers may be invited to Buckingham Palace." "A deb," said Palace Press Secretary Richard Colville, by way of fuller explanation, "can no longer apply to meet the Queen. There is no one she can apply to. In fact, there will be no debs. They are finished...