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February. Ex-Dean Watson will reply to Dean Bundy, "Mr. Bundy may know everything, but he doesn't have any buttons. Buttons are lots of fun. Lots." The Harvard Young Republican Club will charge that John F. Kennedy's senior honors thesis (1940) was ghost-written. President Pusey will deny reports that he is organizing a gold-finding expedition to South America in an attempt to bolster the Program for Harvard College. Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr. will deny reports that he is going to the North Pole on a gold-finding expedition in an attempt to cover certain legal expenses...
...will see a new birth of freedom. And so, friends, every day from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. will be set aside for this nation to Pray Our Way to Power!" Pusey strikes gold. Speaking through an administrative assistant, John K. Kennedy will deny that his thesis was ghost-written. The Editors of Fortnightly challenge the executive board of the HYDC to a duel...
...tute" schools provided their clientele with ghost-written papers, specially abridged textbooks, and stolen lecture notes and exam questions. By the 1930s, it was estimated that between two-thirds and three-quarters of the undergraduate body patronized these houses of intellectual ill-fame...
...clubs. He has invested in a California golf course and Florida real estate. He and Ted Williams are co-owners of a fishing-tackle company. Endorsements bring in a good stipend and three gleaming Nashes each year. He has made a golfing record, several films, draws royalties from four ghost-written books and a ghosted golfing column. And, like all the top pros, he makes money gambling on the game...
...Examples could be taken from any era to show how ghost-written sources have built an impenetrable thicket around the truth. Two generations of scholars have quarreled about the meaning of Washington's Farewell Address, simply because no one knows whether Washington himself or Alexander Hamilton was its author." The same can be said of Woodrow Wilson's "neutrality in thought" proclamation of Aug. 18, 1914. Recent investigations have "turned up the original draft of this proclamation in the handwriting of Robert Lansing, with changes and notations by Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan . . . Therefore, if any character...