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...Reds purged by Stalin in 1937, and last week Darya told 5,000 rapt delegates that she had survived 19½ years of prison, labor camp and exile only because "I always had Lenin in my heart and asked him what to do." In the tones of a Delphic priestess, Darya continued: "Yesterday I consulted Lenin again, and he seemed to stand before me as if alive, and said, 'It is unpleasant for me to lie next to Stalin, who caused the party so much harm...
Edward Roscoe (baptized Egbert Roscoe) Murrow, Director of the U.S. Information Agency. North Carolinian Murrow's apocalyptic voice and Delphic punditry first gained force during his CBS ''THIS . . . is London" newscasts during World War II. As CBS's top commentator, and later as a director and vice president in charge of news and special events, he lent the same organ-toned quality to such TV shows as Person to Person and See It Now (both programs have since been dropped). Because of apparent differences on policy with the network brass, he took a sabbatical...
Eliot House Committee (Chairman); house football; house drama; Junior Usher; Wrestling team, Varsity Crew Squad; Hasty Pudding--Vice-Pres.; Pudding Theatricals -- Advertising Manager; Delphic; Freshman Glee Club; Freshman Crew...
Varsity Soccer Team (Captain, 1960), Freshman Soccer; Freshman Lacrosse; Undergraduate Athletic Council; Delphic Club; Hasty Pudding-Institute 1770; Varsity Club; Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players; Freshman Glee Club; Lowell House Yearbook...
...went to Andover, and he hopes that his six-year-old son Chris will end up at both schools, "that is if they're still half as good in six years as they are right now." At college he was president of the Hasty Pudding, vice-president of the Delphic Club, and vice-president...