Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the band switched to a waltz and an adjutant announced the award of six medals. Dignitaries presented them to Cadet Lt. Col. Charles R. Helloer '50, Cadet Master/Sgt.: Albert, R. Everett, Jr. '49, Cadet Captain James O'Neil '50, Cadet Lee. D. Cunningham '51, Cadet John J. shes, Jr. '52, and L.T. Com. Thomas C. Simons...
...would not be necessary, but for the misemphasis placed upon his death by newspapers and individuals everywhere. Men of as different political persuasion as Bill Cunningham and Howard Fast have chosen to consider his death solely in political terms, using it as a springboard for their own opinions...
They have treated him as a political cipher--Cunningham displaying extraordinarily bad taste, others with somewhat more respect, Fast with reverence and fury--failing completely to treat his death apart from its possible political significance. They have distorted and misconstrued the fact of his death for their own partisan purposes...
...morning of April 3, the Boston Herald gave its usual space to its most distinguished calumnist Mr. Bill Cunningham. The energy of that sporting publicist was devoted to the task of besmirching the memory of a distinguished scholar, inspiring teacher, and man of unflinching honor, Professor Matthiessen. Mr. Cunningham with his customary delicacy of style and feeling saw fit to convert personal tragedy into political comedy. It was one of those days on which his brutality got the better of his sentimentality. Perhaps he set out deliberately to violate every standard of human decency. More probably he seized instinctively upon...
Protest against the qualities of Mr. Cunningham is obviously fruitless. Yet expression of indignation that a paper which purports to be troubled by the prevalent crime of character assassination sees fit to publish such obscenities as Mr. Cunningham's may not be entirely futile. A community's standard of decency may have appreciable effect on editorial policy of that indignation is expressed in the firm resolution to let the Herald be read only by those who find amusement in a bad boy's blasphemy and sportsmanship in Mr. Cunningham's temperament. Mark DeW. Howe '28 Professor...