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NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙ Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙ Dulles, Leonard Mosley ∙ A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ A Young Man in Search of Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer
DIED. Henry Merritt Wriston, 88, president of Brown University (1937-55) and blue-ribbon Government panelist; in Manhattan. At Brown, Wriston established a reputation as an iconoclast, de-emphasizing survey courses and attracting top professors and freeing them of administrative tasks. Describing himself as "a perpetually dissatisfied Republican," Wriston defended...
Dulles, Leonard Mosley
> Dulles, Leonard Mosley
In a way, the most interesting of the Dulles family was Eleanor, an intelligent and independent woman forced to work all her life in her brothers' shadows. In 1926 her doctoral thesis at Radcliffe was published under the title The French Franc. John Maynard Keynes declared it "the best...