Word: deweyitis
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...newly established Carl M. Loeb University Professorship may go to either J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, Ernest Nagel, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia, Isaiah Berlin, historian at Oxford University, or Erwin Panofsky, professor of the History of Art at Princeton, it was learned yesterday...
...nine o'clock, the Social Relations department has an offering. The Ethnology of Native North America, Soc. Re1. 124, concerns, evidently, the people of America and Canada. Over in Harvard Hall 5 today's mind comes to grips with the New Testament, and Professor Buttrick with Dewey, Fromm, Eliot, and Sartre. The course is Humanities...
...getting up steam, other ventures in the W. R. Grace & Co. empire were growing just as busily. The company announced last week that it would authorize $100 million in capital spending for 1956, $40 million of it for Grace's booming chemical ventures (among them: Grace Chemical Co., Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. Division), which in 1955 accounted for 45% of Grace's total income v. only 3% in 1952. Another $30 million will go to the Grace Line, the remainder principally to paper enterprises in South America, where Grace also has ventures in sugar, paint, textiles, light bulbs...
...Chicago Daily Newsman Ed Lahey reported that he had wired Thomas E. Dewey, seeking an interview about the possibility that Dewey might again be a presidential candidate. By wire Dewey replied: "Don't pay any attention to any political talk about me. It is nonsense. My only interest is in the renomination and election of the President...
September. Truman will spear a coelacanth and a dugong. Dewey says he will run if Truman does. The White House ground crew will begin construction of a tennis court where the driving range once stood. Back in Cambridge, the HAA will adopt a new ticket distributing plan which is based upon "free enterprise or tickets go to the highest bidder." Ex-President Pusey will deny that he is a ghostwriter for Billy Graham. Pusey will declare, "I don't believe in ghosts...