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...field ballooned when Lowell resigned. The most popular choice seems to have been Kenneth B. Murdock '16, now Francis Lee Higinson Professor of English Disfeature. It appears that Murdock was Lowell's favorite, but President Conant '14, was named, Presumably since the President's voice is limited in selection...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Candidates Sneer, Electioneer Through History | 3/6/1953 | See Source »

...Conant's successor will be is not yet known. It is understood that the selection is being made as in the past, at a series of informal, but expensive dinners. Members of the Corporation sitaround a table, discussing candidates, eliminating some possibilities with cries of "MY GOD! He'll never...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Candidates Sneer, Electioneer Through History | 3/6/1953 | See Source »

...Fitzpatrick is right, the next occupant of 17 Quincy Street will have Conant's hair (bottom picture), Lowell's mustache (middle), and Eliot's sideburns (top). The pictures on the left were the photographs that the Crimson sent out to cartoonists to aid the selection process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fitzpatrick's Quincy Street Combo | 3/6/1953 | See Source »

Tired of hearing idle gossip, the CRIMSON decided to find out what the new head of the University will look like. Pictures of Harvard's last three presidents--Eliot, Lowell, and Conant--were sent to a number of leading cartoonists, together with a request to reveal the face of the new chief executive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New President? | 3/4/1953 | See Source »

Shoot to Kill. Ex-Harvard President Conant could not have picked a livelier classroom for his introduction to cold-war diplomacy, nor a fitter place for his first recitation. Day & night, the German Communists were drawing tighter 'their noose around West Berlin and piling up fresh woes for doughty Mayor Ernst Reuter's West Berlin government. Last week they finished building concrete molehills across the streets leading from the East to the Western sectors. The people's police got orders to shoot to kill at border crossers, and diligently complied. Three cars carrying refugees from the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Promise Renewed | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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