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SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, George J. Church, Gerald Clarke, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, John Leo, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who wrote on Harvard's history, was virtually born with Crimson blood. Perhaps for that reason, Friedrich pooh-poohs any idea of a Harvard mystique. Says he: "I grew up there, my father (Carl J., who helped create the West German constitution) was a professor of government there, and the life of the faculty was our neighborhood life. I wasn't that impressed. Anyway, I almost flunked out my freshman year." Friedrich quickly recovered, though, and graduated magna cum laude...
Bowen and Friedrich relied on contributions from Boston Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian (Harvard), Correspondent Joelle Attinger (Wellesley) and Harvard Senior Robert Cunha. They were also assisted by Reporter-Researchers John Gallagher (Fordham), Val Castronovo (Vassar), Nancy Gibbs (Yale) and Zona Sparks (University of Chicago). Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, a Yale graduate who edited the cover stories, discounts any talk of brisk competition between Harvard and his alma mater. Says Porterfield: "The Macy's-Gimbels rivalry thing is a big bore. There is more kinship between Harvard and Yale than between Harvard and any other university. In these days when others...
...German chemist, Friedrich Bergius, detailed a process for converting "wood waste, such as sawdust, into virtually unlimited supplies of synthetic food products containing all the fundmental elements of nutrition...
Perhaps the most remarkable announcement was that of the German professor, Friedrich Bergius, who claimed to have developed a means for converting sawdust into food. Across two columns atop its front page on September 12, 1936, The Times reported the following...