Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporter. Next day it was splashed across the top of Page One in the daily Oklahoman. Instead of firing him, the impressed senators promoted him to chief page. When he grew up, Townes trained on the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, went to Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship (1942). Three years later, with Cleveland Newspaper Broker Smith Davis, he took over the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald and Journal. Townes gingered it up enough to net him a $55,000 profit when he and Davis sold out last year...
...next year the Hon. George Bancroft, donor of the fellowship, who was otherwise famed both as the man who ordered the invasion of Mexico and as a historian of some note, completed his donation to bring the sum of the fund to more than...
...even a year afterwards that one Allan Walton Gould, a man "always somewhat inclined to books," reaped the first rewards of Bancroft's generosity. Gould studied for a year in Leipzig under the fellowship and returned to become a tutor at Harvard and finally a Unitarian Minister. His class's 30th anniversary book was somewhat scandalized by the report that he had once held a post in a church "reputed to be radical...
...years have been as kind to the fellowship as they were to the instrument of its early publicity. At the moment, the fellowship is held by two graduate students, Stainslaw Wellisz and Harold Ferdinand Van Ummerson. The principal has new mounted to $16,137.08 according to the latest Treasurer's Statement, published over the signature of William H. Clatlin. Mrs Clatlin dabbles in archaeology...
...paper was still virtually home less, occupying a single room in the Lyceum building and publishing, according to a former editor, "in a happy-go-lucky fashion where at least at much time was devoted to punches and jolly fellowship as to work." But by the end of the eighties a sterner spirit had overtaken the board, and the social and alcoholic functions were abandoned in favor of more serous and better organized journalistic effort...