Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winthrop House, Mrs. Bundy may have her teapot on the top shelf, out of the reach of her four small children, and Mrs. Schlesinger Jr. may use hers for a still life. Though the University affects all faculty wives its impact varies. The wives of the Masters, department chairmen, and administrative officials have a good deal "thrust upon them." A majority of the responsibility for hostessing newcomers' teas, "visiting firemen's" dinners, and graduate and undergraduate meetings is theirs. Others elect a university affiliation: the Drs. Rudolph teach a course together on Indian Government and the Handlins work together...
...ever after raising norms, was getting too much for even barnyard critics to take. Last week Moscow's Literary Gazette, newspaper of the writers' union, published a letter reflecting the collective complaints of 19,000 "milkmaids, swineherds, calf-maids, gardeners, field hands, tractor drivers and collective farm chairmen.'' Gist: Soviet writers should stop filling their novels with foolishly detailed descriptions of farm chores they know nothing about and calling the result literature...
...attendance inside the Festival of some 150 non-Communist Americans, and coordinated much of the press and student activity inside the Festival. Financed by the private contributions of prominent citizens, the Service has the support of national leaders such as Senator Humphrey. Gloria Steinam and Leonard Bebchick were co-chairmen, and Paul E. Sigmund of the Harvard Government Department, and Senior Tutor of Quincy House, provided overall guidance...
...then looked at Mayor Poulson. "I want to ask you," he said, "why did you mention that? Already in the U.S. I have clarified that. I trust that even mayors read." The crowd gave Khrushchev a laugh and a round of applause. "In our country," Khrushchev went on, "chairmen of councils who do not read the press risk not being re-elected." The crowd gave Khrushchev another big hand; two-time Mayor Poulson turned crimson. Then Khrushchev went on: "Ladies and gentlemen, you want to get up on this favorite horse of yours and proceed in the same old direction...
Died. Frank Comerford Walker, 73, portly, tight-lipped movie-house owner and the third of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four Catholic national chairmen (1943-44), who began his political career by donating $10,000 to F.D.R.'s 1928 gubernatorial campaign, as a watchful Postmaster General (1940-45) tried to revoke Esquire Magazine's second-class mailing privileges because of its spicy contents; in Manhattan...