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...week in Washington was not all gravely introspective. In Georgetown restaurants and funky taverns, the war's survivors celebrated that survival. The lobby of the Sheraton Washington Hotel, for instance, was turned into a sort of nonstop cash-bar bivouac. Hundreds of vets, mainly Army, swarmed and shouted ("Airborne? Whoa!") with drinks in hand...
Eleanor Holmes Norton, who will serve a six-year term as an alumni fellow on the corporation which has permanent and temporary members, teaches law at Georgetown University She received from Yale a master's degree in American Studies in 1963 and an LL.B...
...title reflecting the considerable amount of personal interviewing and on-scene reporting the job can often entail, has a Ph.D. in classics and is a former Roman Catholic seminarian. In the World section, one researcher is a Soviet specialist who taught Russian at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University...
...described in this sturdy biography by Caroline Seebohm, a Vogue contributor who was given access to company files, Nast was not quite what he seemed. He was a parvenu from the provinces, raised in St. Louis, the second son of a ne'er-do-well speculator. Through a Georgetown University classmate, he landed a job at Collier's Weekly, and by 1909 had learned enough about publishing to buy an obscure high-society weekly journal. He improved everything-the paper, the fashion drawings, the photography, the writing-and within a decade Vogue became the nation's most...
...foster the notion of living normally. It is a difficult task because everything about herpes is conducive to irrational fears. No form of protection is absolute, and there is no sure way to know who has the disease, even after a close inspection. Says Dr. Philip Lake of Georgetown University: "As many as one out of six of the general population may from time to time be asymptomatic shedders of the herpes virus...