Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herbert Norman's suicide would have attracted relatively little attention had it not been for the fact that the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, last month revived a charge that Norman had been a Communist at Columbia University 19 years ago. Because of the charge, his death caused worldwide headlines and recriminations...
...acting permanent delegate to the United Nations in New York when his name cropped up in a hearing before the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, then headed by Nevada Democrat Pat McCarran. Testifying on Communist infiltration in the U.S., German-born Karl Wittfogel, onetime professor of Chinese history at Columbia University and a professed ex-Communist, said that in 1938 he and Norman, then a student in the Japanese department at Columbia, had attended a Communist study group on Cape Cod. Wittfogel. now a contributor to the New Leader, testified that he had known Norman as a Communist...
...from public dams built under the New Deal is now inadequate, and few new industries are moving in. As a result of this-and the Democratic victories in the Northwest last year on a public power platform-there is growing pressure for more Government help in developing the vast Columbia River basin. Below Hell's Canyon on the Snake River (chief Columbia tributary), private power had planned two power-only dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep. Though approved by former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, the plans were tentatively disapproved by an FPC study last month that favored...
Twenty years or so ago, Bronx-born Leonard Warren (né Warrenoff) was busy selling fur jackets and studying advertising at Columbia, and Brooklyn-born Richard (originally Reuben) Tucker was selling dyed silk linings to the wholesale fur trade. Baritone Warren turned to singing (he won the 1938 Metropolitan Auditions of the Air) when the Depression shrank the fur business; Tenor Tucker turned to singing when the outbreak of World War II shrank the silk supply. Both advanced quickly in the war-hobbled Metropolitan, both quickly became reliable, stock-in-trade singers. In recent years they have blossomed into spectacular...
...book is born; a classic is forever reborn. Each generation supplies its own Pygmalions-men with the love and skill to breathe new life into the literary monuments of the past. As Pygmalions to the ancient Roman poets, two lifelong classics scholars and teachers, Gilbert Highet (Columbia) and Rolfe Humphries (now a lecturer at New York City's Hunter College after 32 years at Long Island's Woodmere Academy), have love and skill to spare. Poet Humphries renders Ovid's famed, amoral The Art of Love in its most readable translation since Dryden's, including...