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...sessions at Madison Square Garden and in meetings at midtown hotels, they talked about everything from juvenile delinquency to audio-visual aids. They elected a sprightly new president-Miss Waurine Walker of the Texas Education Agency-heard such notables as Mayor Robert Wagner and U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjoöld. But for the most part, the effect of the convention was to remind the public once again that it was far from performing its proper duty towards the public schools...
...Dag Hammarskjöld U.N. Secretary General LL.D...
Freedom House Dinner (Sun. 10:35 p.m., ABC). Speeches by Harry S. Truman, Dag Hammarskjold, Paul Hoffman...
...never become an Orpheus . . . The academy move paves the way for the statesman, warrior, philosopher and poet, Mao Tse-tung in Peking, to receive the next year's prize." The Liberal Aftonbladet, however, thought the award might "well have been made much earlier." The Communist Ny Dag sneered: "This is a clear case of sidetracking Eisenhower . . . They say he, too, has written a book." But Sir Winston's friends paid him honor. "Historian laureate," said the New York Herald Tribune. "His countrymen can share in his pride," said the Times of London...
Died. Hjalmar Hammarskjold, 91, statesman-father of the United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold; in Stockholm. As Sweden's Premier during World War I, he shaped his country's traditional neutrality policy, and later, as chairman of the multimillion-dollar foundation (1929-47), annually presided over the awarding of Nobel Prizes...