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...publishers and editors, 46 magazine editors, a score of journalism school deans, ten Pulitzer prizewinners and a raft of New York Timesmen (78 at last count). To celebrate, Columbia lured three big-name journalists to the campus for Doctorates of Humane Letters: Alu nus Herbert Brucker ('24), Hartford Courant editor, newest president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill; and New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston...
...belt which is so comfortable as well as functional on the ski slopes. The large collection of ski sweaters from Europe includes those of Montant of France, supplier of olympic teams. These V-neck, doubleknit racing sweaters worn with turtleneck jersey are very, very warm and, oh, so au courant...
Though Mr. Wiseman can use the defense that much modern music is anti-lyrical (whatever that means), a performance by a musician such as himself of music a little more au courant than Faure would have been most welcome...
...That Fits. Charleston's News & Courier styles itself SOUTH CAROLINA'S MOST OUTSPOKEN NEWSPAPER. The staunchly segregationist Columbus Commercial Dispatch hails itself as MISSISSIPPI'S MOST PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER. Connecticut's 197-year-old Hartford Courant calls itself the OLDEST NEWSPAPER OF CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION IN AMERICA. Despite saturation news coverage by TV and radio, many dailies idly boast that they are FIRST WITH THE NEWS...
...need for, and the absence of, skilled technicians in the French army led to the founding of L'Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, where "they spent several months of every year in examinations to weed out the weak and encourage the strong," said Courant. The Germans followed suit with a technical school in 1793, and both institutions collected the best minds of all ages. Napoleon drew on the Ecole for his Egyptian campaign, taking the celebrated mathematician Fourier along to decipher hieroglyphics, Courant related...