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...Rivalry (by Norman Corwin) recreates the fateful Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Douglas won the contest, in that he was re-elected Senator from Illinois, but the debates helped send Lincoln on to the presidency. In the main, Lincoln and Douglas argued three issues: 1) the extension of slavery, 2) the status of the Negro, 3) the right of the states to regulate the Negro's status. Basically, the debate of states' rights v. human rights is still passionately going...
Eyebrows of Yale alumni rose last week like mugs at Mory's; Smith College, prestigious college for young women, had just announced that its next president would be Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II. A 48-year-old associate professor and master of Yale's Berkeley College, Mendenhall is Yale-famed for his classes in maritime and English history, admired for the pungent certitude with which he expresses himself and for his imaginatively disreputable wardrobe. A huge (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), slightly stooped man who is bald but manages to look shaggy in spite of it, he ambles...
...that the principal effect of the Fifth is to stand between wrongdoers and their just punishment. But the courts have made it plain that the Fifth Amendment cannot successfully be invoked merely because social discredit and persecution may be the consequence of testimony. That is why Prof. Edward S. Corwin was able to make the following statement of fact in his annotations of the Constitution: "The privilege exists solely for the protection of the witness himself, and may not be claimed for the benefit of third parties" (i.e., acknowledged Communists may not refuse to name others known to them...
While Workshop directors recognized that radio drama had to be sound drama, it counted words as an important type of sound to stir the imagination. The program counted among its writers Stephen Vincent Benet, Archibald MacLeish, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker and Norman Corwin, who created an effective impressionistic style of radio writing...
Louis Begley, English; Bernard L. Busfield, Jr., Biology; Andrew T. Cole, Jr., Classics; Henry Stecle Commage, Jr., Latin; Howard A. Corwin, Biology; James D. Finkelstein, Chemistry; Steven C. Frautschi, Physics; Frank I. Goodman, History; Milton S. Gwirtzman, Government; David Korn, Biochemical Sciences; Nelson R. Lampert, Chemistry; Robert C. Lasch, History; David B. Lewin, Mathematics; Charles M. McEwen, Jr., Germanic Languages and Literature...