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...This work fills a significant gap in scholarly research. Previously, Harvard dissertations were difficult to obtain, even on microfilm," said Warren Professor of American History Emeritus Frank B. Freidel. Freidel and the current Warren professor, Ernest R. May, made the selections in the area of American history and political science...
...deal. He gave them salaries that were princely at the time, ranging from $9,000 to $16,000. Among the ten Whiz Kids, as they were called: McNamara and Arjay Miller, both of whom later became Ford presidents. Henry raided GM for the man to head the new team, Ernest Breech, possibly the best production chief in the U.S. at the time...
...turns out that the bureau could have used some Ph.D.s in English. Both The New Yorker and The Nation magazines last week documented nearly half a century of FBI surveillance of more than 100 prominent American writers, including six Nobel laureates (Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill and John Steinbeck). The gumshoe lit crit was sometimes comically inept. FBI files, for example, described the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay as possibly subversive because she used the "analogy of the mole boring under the garden...
Members of the commission include some of thenation's foremost higher educationleaders--including Ernest M. Boyer, head of theCarnegie Foundation for the Advancement ofTeaching and Robert H. Atwell, president of theACE...
Bork's ambition was to follow Ernest Hemingway into newspaper reporting and book writing. But because Chicago had granted Bork a B.A. in less than two years, Columbia University refused to send him a journalism school application. So he turned instead to Chicago's law school. The first classroom professor he encountered there was Edward Levi, an antitrust scholar who later became Attorney General and Bork's boss under Gerald Ford. "He was the most fantastic teacher I ever knew," Bork says. "He took the big ideas in the law and played with them, always by indirection." Levi's technique...