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Studying at Oxford on a Fulbright, Beer made his statement in a letter to the London Sunday Observer in reply to a report in a previous issue by Miss Virginia Cowles, a past news correspondent and member of the United States Embassy in London...
Last week 30 of the 58 trustees* of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc. met with the President for the first time to tell him just how their program would work. It contained a dash of Rhodes, a smidgin of Fulbright and a seasoning of Point Four. Its object: to train "rising young leaders" in non-Communist nations to help solve their countries' most urgent social and economic problems...
Whitehill said the program was open to students entering their first year of graduate school next September. He emphasized that the program will not consider financial need, and added, "A Danforth Fellow is allowed to carry other scholarship appointments, such as Fulbright or Woodrow Wilson grants...
...critics hailed his down-to-earth pictures of Midwestern life as evidence of a promising new talent. But this still did not put food in the artist's larder. After war service as an Army combat artist and two years in Italy on a Fulbright grant, Radulovic came back to the U.S., had to take a job as a private detective to support himself in a Manhattan studio...
Then, last spring, in some State Department fund juggling, the government transfered the fiscal responsibility from the High Commissioner to the Fulbright committee. Fulbrights are awarded on a competitive basis; hence few students on the undergraduate level can win them. And, since German currency restrictions and United States immigration laws make it impossible for the exchange-students to support themselves, the Council announced a one year lapse in the program...