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...credibility. By the time the Class of 1956 was leaving Cambridge, the book was closing on the era. “It was the height of the McCarthy period, even though it was on its decline,” says David I. Halberstam ’55, former managing editor of The Crimson.KREMLIN ON THE CHARLESMcCarthy focused his efforts on Harvard, nicknamed “the Kremlin on the Charles.” Though the hearings were a distant reality for most undergraduates, Kamin, a graduate student employed by the Harvard Corporation as a teaching fellow, was vulnerable...
...Charles River. DYNASTY ON THE DECLINE“To understand Barry Bingham Jr., you have to understand a little bit about the family and the newspaper itself,” says Arthur B. “Ben” Post Jr., The Courier-Journal’s managing editor. “I always compare it to the Kennedy family.”Bingham’s grandfather had served as a judge and ambassador to France, and his father was well-loved as the publisher of The Courier-Journal.Like the patrician Kennedys, the Bingham dynasty was devastated by a series...
...adept at finding spots near the Houses. “I learned which streets near my house (Lowell) or near the Crimson got ‘loose’ at what hours on what days,” David Royce ’56, who is a former Crimson editor, writes in an e-mail, “and I seldom had to hunt more than one loop around the block to find a spot.”“I don’t think I ever got a Harvard ticket,” Royce writes...
...personally, getting into Harvard was kind of a pre-condition to doing what it was that I really wanted to do, which was to be on The Crimson,” he says.Rosenthal rose quickly in the ranks of The Crimson to become the Associate Managing Editor, while also scoring a job on the side as the New York Herald’s sports correspondent.Rosenthal was on scholarship at a time when one of his own articles reported that a $40,000 loan program constituted a 300 percent increase in financial aid for the Class of 1958.To make ends meet...
...Whitman, who was used to eating dinner with Einstein and Edward Teller. “Social situations didn’t faze me a whole lot.”Roommate Paula B. Cronin ’56 soon gleaned that Whitman, who would go on to serve as co-editor of the Radcliffe News, was unique.“She was full of energy,” Cronin recollects. “She paced all the time, rather like a tiger in a cage.”When Whitman received the Jonathan Fay Prize, awarded to the highest academically ranked...