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Polymathic Kenneth Conant, who attracts a sizable throng in his spring course on modern architecture, is giving a one term survey on the architecture of the Americas this fall. Entitled Fine Arts 179, this course is just the thing for those who want to find out how Harvard's buildings got that...
...beloved visage. The succession of university Presidents appear too, with Jared Sparks in 1849 politely refusing a female applicant ("the time may come when female claims will be more justly valued"), or Thomas Hill, in 1862 warning Abraham Lincoln about the behavior of his son, or Eliot, Lowell and Conant striving eloquently to define the meaning of Harvard...
...head of the U.S. Information Agency: Theodore C. Streibert, 53, able former board chairman of the Mutual Broadcasting System, lately adviser to HighCommissioner James B. Conant in Germany. Streibert's newly created agency is to include all of the old U.S. Information Service (Voice of America, etc.), together with the information setups of the Mutual Security Agency and the Technical Cooperation Administration...
...first, U.S. officials soft-pedaled the fact that it was an American program, letting it appear to be what U.S. High Commissioner James B. Conant called Germans feeding Germans. This device got the U.S. more credit (despite organized cries of outrage back in the U.S. in the Scripps-Howard press). And the Communists themselves spoke loudly of "Ami Pakete," so there was no doubt...
...ANGELES: Ben Williamson, James Murray, John Allen, Lyn Kennedy. DETROIT: Fred Collins. ATLANTA: William Howland, Boyd McDonald. BOSTON: Jeff Wylie. DALLAS: William Johnson. HOUSTON: Willard C. Rappleye, Jr. DENVER: Ed Ogle, Charles Champlin. SAN FRANCISCO: Alfred Wright. SEATTLE: Dean Brelis. OTTAWA: Serrell Hillman Byron W. Riggan. MONTREAL: James R. Conant...