Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While our correspondents on campuses contributed much to the story, many key interviews were handled by Education Reporter Peter Babcox. At his alma mater, Columbia College (Class of '60), he taped the thoughts of Rebel Student Leader David Shapiro during a taxi ride to Queens, where the Phi Beta Kappa poet was to give a reading. Later, Peter sat in on a midnight bull session with students in Buffalo, then drove the next morning to State College, Pa., with Sociologist Edgar Friedenberg, interviewing him en route. Babcox ended his school swing in a talk with a Penn State senior...
From 1953 to 1956 the lbis had no such hair-raising ordeals but was periodically stolen by a Crimson cartoonist, David Royce, known to his contemporaries as "the human fly.' Later it was also presented to Caroline Kennedy whose family seemed to understand the nature of the gift more readily than had the Russian delegates on Park Avenue...
...dishonest. And I continue to belive that students should fight the evils of society directly in the society, as a great many have done and are doing now, taking universities and even Harvard with less solemnity as the measure of all ideals, the forum for all polemics. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences
...equally clear that Columbia's academic rebels are so concerned with the failures of an intransigent system that they themselves are intransigently determined to prevent the university's restoration at any cost. "The events of Tuesday night," said Columbia Provost David Truman, "brought home to a lot of faculty and students just what we're up against with the hard core of the demonstrators...
...them even on a temporary basis. Many were fragile and falling apart, and the pages had to be separated in order to be photographed-a project requiring all the delicate art of the bookbinder. "It took almost a negative Wassermann test just to see the magazines," says Editorial Consultant David McDowell. But under persistent prodding, the owners eventually let them go-in exchange for a new volume of reprints. Even so, Whit Burnett, editor of Story, insured his copy of the first issue for $570 and kept calling up Kraus to inquire solicitously after its welfare...