Word: edwin
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Established in 1903 in'honor of Edwin Godkin, editor of the Nation, the lectures bring either a scholar or public leader to award each year to discuss the "essential of free government and the duties of the citizens." Lecturers in recent years included Nelson Rockefeller, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert Weaver...
...Alexis Johnson, Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs, the No. 4 man, is expected to replace Ambassador Edwin Reischauer in Japan before fall-Mrs. Johnson has already measured the Tokyo embassy windows for curtains-so that Reischauer can return to Harvard, which has offered him a newly created chair in Far Eastern politics. David Bell, head of the Agency for International Development, is also outward bound, most likely will join Bundy at the Ford Foundation after the current foreign-aid bill has been convoyed through Congress...
...Reporting, special: John A. Frasca of the Tampa Tribune; Editorial Writing: Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Cartoons: Don Wright of the Miami News; News Photography: Kyoichi Sawada of UPI; History: the late Perry Miller; Biography: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter; Poetry: Richard Eberhart; Nonfiction: Edwin Way Teale...
...scholastic tendency has hit trivia. Edwin Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky alphabetized all the major trivialities and arranged them so that you can't see the answer without having the person in the next stall at Lamont know you're cheating. A special twenty-question section for the connoisseur, even asks you to name Milton Berle's mother. (No, not Mrs. Berle.) A reading period necessity published by Dell for only fifty cents...
...world he left or ever knew, but a fun-house mirroring unac- customed images: Ippo the sandwich man; two German whores who dispense their favors in duo; a flagellant with the implausible name of Bob Courage, who invites Edwin to whip up a little...