Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, David E. Lilienthal is burdened with two huge and conflicting jobs. One job is to insure that the U.S. makes more and better bombs. The other job, as he sees it, is so to educate the U.S. people that no bombs shall ever be dropped, anywhere, by anybody...
Councilman John K. Lally '49 informs the other members re failure to obtain sufficient parkees to open the across river parking lot. An eager voice arises from a slouched figure that is all but hidden in a large leather upholstered chair; closer examinations discloses the voice as that of David C. Poskanzer '50: "I suggest we have the Cambridge police tow in about 200 cars some night and then we'll be able to fill up the parking lot the next day." He laughs wholeheartedly; other Council members laugh halfheartedly. Says Weld...
...Heartily Detest. . . ." From the Russian pacifist Count Leo Tolstoy and the American hermit-naturalist Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi learned the doctrines of nonviolence and deliberate, organized disobedience to unjust power. He said it was better to be poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...
...read a line. But he is anxious to make another pro tour, if "the public will accept me." In Hollywood last week, he shuttled from court to court giving tennis lessons to such high-paying movie clients as Mrs. Charles (Oona O'Neill) Chaplin, the Joseph Cottens, the David Selznicks. Said he: "There's a lot of money here for anyone who can teach the game...
...Business Manager; Joel Raphaelson '49, Editorial Chairman; George G. Daniels '48, Executive Editor; Burton S. Glinn '46, Photographic Chairman; Thomas C. Simons '50, Advertising Manager. Positions on the board are: S. William Green '50, News Editor; Robert Carswell '49, Sports Editor; Stephen N. Cady '48, Associate Sports Editor; David G. Braston '46, Staff Artist; Gilbert H. Boas '49, Circulation Manager; David E. Lilienthal Jr. '49 Librarian; Charles W. Bailey 2nd '50, Secretary...