Word: griffiths
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Sparagana will move into Christina S. Griffith's post as assistant dean for first-years living in Canaday, Matthews and Weld. Fithian will take over Michael J. Middleton's '87 post as assistant dean for students in the Union dorms, Grays and Wigglesworth...
...with his wife, the formidable Clare Boothe Luce, "Harry," as he was called, decided to bring home a souvenir, a talented bundle of energy named Theodore H. White. They are the Harry & Teddy (Random House; 340 pages; $24) of this smart little guide to big-time journalism by Thomas Griffith, a former foreign editor of TIME and editor of LIFE...
...prize catch," writes Griffith of the 26-year-old Harvard graduate who had gone to China as a flack for Chiang in his battles against both the Japanese army and the communist legions, led by Mao Zedong. Both those struggles were holy wars for Luce, the son of Presbyterian missionaries in China. White was indeed a prize who would go on to become perhaps the greatest journalist of his time, chronicling (mostly in books written after his tenure at TIME, from 1941 to 1946) the wars and corruptions of Chiang and Mao, the postwar rebuilding of Europe and the making...
...Both were skilled at infighting when crossed," writes Griffith of the editor and his star. "The crucial difference was that one was the boss and the other not." The battles still occur, but nowadays instead of great causes and a kind of male war-love, they involve lawyers and corporations, bottom lines and movie rights...
...spoke to Dean Griffith, Dean Nathans and Dean Epps, and I'm still living there," the first-year fumes. "They told me that if I didn't like my options [staying in the room or moving to the Co-op] I could just move off campus. They told me I hadn't worked hard enough. I don't know how much work there is for me to do when this girl is fucking her boyfriend in my room," she says. "I know they try really hard to match people up, but you can't just tell someone they...