Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Headed in the opposite direction for her year of study is Elisabeth Hanna, who left her TIME desk with a Fulbright scholarship to work in Italy at the University of Perugia and the University of Florence. Scholar Hanna, a distant relative of President-Maker Mark Hanna of Ohio, is a young lady working her way up in the newsreporting business. She came to TIME a fluent linguist in German, French and Italian, with a scholastic background of study at Vassar, Barnard and the University of Berlin. This year she learned how TIME handles its network of foreign correspondents...
...even more distant past. Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq is still inhabited during the winter months by about 40 Kurds and their flocks and herds. Last year Solecki became interested in the debris on the cave's floor. Back at Shanidar early this year, financed by a Fulbright grant and surrounded by fascinated Kurds, Archaeologist Solecki carefully dug a square shaft in the promising deposit. The top layers were modern. Just below, he found tools and fragments of pottery from the "historic period" when Shanidar belonged to the Persians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians or the Turks. Below this layer...
...scholars slept in their old Victorian mahogany beds, shaved in the morning at the same old jug and bowl. "It is still 100 yards to the nearest john," complained one ex-scholar. All over Oxford, middle-aged men showed off old haunts to their wives. Arkansas' Senator James Fulbright, awarded an Oxonian honorary degree, said nostalgically: "Nothing has changed-only...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, was granted a fellowship for study of "the structure and function of British political parties." He also has been given a Fulbright scholarship to England for study of the same subject...
Reginald H. Phelps '30, chairman of the Harvard Fulbright Committee, announced that the following will receive the awards...