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Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, emeritus, died Saturday in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. A teacher at Harvard for thirty years, Schlesinger was a pioneering American social historian and a prominent intellectual figure among American liberals...
...Arthur Schlesinger and I called ourselves the academic twins because we were appointed full professors the name day in 1925 and retired the same day thirty years later." Samuel Eliot Morison '08 professor of History, emeritus recalled yesterday. "He was a great teacher, a great scholar, and a wonderful colleague and friend. His book New Viewpoints in American History broke new ground for our generation of scholars, and nobody did more by personal attention and individual effort to interest students in American history...
...minds of U.S. theatergoers, both Katharine Cornell and Lynn Fontanne may have an equal claim to the title of Queen Emeritus of the American stage. But among the general public, there is no question that it is Helen Hayes who holds the title, for Helen Hayes storms more barns, writes more magazine articles and, more important, has shared both her joys and her sorrows with a wider audience. Now she has published a volume of reminiscences and reflections. She includes tributes to Shakespeare and her bibulous, ebullient husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur; paeans to the pleasures of walking, gardening, solitude, work...
...member Association for the Arnold Arboretum, a non-profit corporation formed the same year, is seeking to have the material returned. Seventeen of its members--including Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus, and Francis T. P. Plimpton, an Overseer and former deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations--brought the present suit...
David E. Owen, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and Master of Winthrop House, emeritus, will speak at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop Junior Common Room on "England Today." Just back from a year in London, Owen will be honored at a dinner in the House's "Owen Room," to be dedicated tonight...