Word: deans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas Horton, Congregational clergyman, retiring dean, Harvard Divinity School...
Natural Clown. Shirley is a "fringie" (part-time member) of "The Clan," an exclusive, halfway-out social clique headed by Sinatra and Dean Martin, and she is still frankly delighted by their attentions. "I'm shy and introverted with them, and wondering if I'm doing the right thing," she says. "I wouldn't presume to try to be anything but myself with them." The Clan, in turn, treats her as a sort of mascot. Says Clansman Peter Lawford: "She's a guy, a funny girl, a natural clown." Says Dean Martin: "She's also...
Strauss cannot claim sole credit for finally persuading Harry Truman to issue the order, early in 1950, to get going on an H-bomb program. Playing equally important roles were Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and Connecticut's late Democratic Senator Brien McMahon. But without Strauss's lonely battling, the decision would have come much later, possibly too late. As it was, the U.S. tested its first H-bomb only nine months before the first Soviet H-bomb explosion...
Neuberger, who was elected Senator by about the length of Wayne Morse's cropped mustache. The two were old friends: in 1933 Morse, then dean of the School of Law at the University of Oregon, was Neuberger's only defender when Student Neuberger was accused of violating the honor system during an examination. In 1954 Morse delivered more than 300 campaign speeches on behalf of his old pupil. In 1956 Neuberger returned the favor, stumped the state in support of Morse. That year, led by Morse and Neuberger, Oregon Democrats elected their first Governor since 1934, took over...
Helen Brooke Taussig, noted for research on congenital heart disease, and Simon S. Kuznets, Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins, were each awarded the degree of Doctor of Science. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School, became an honorary Doctor of Divinity; American composer Samuel Barber, Doctor of Music; and Lawrence Terry, Headmaster of Middlesex School, received an honorary Master of Arts degree. Terry was cited as a "Rugged, kindly son of Harvard, an enlightened servant of education and school...