Word: gunther
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe, however, that you have oversimplified the case for Urban Renewal and seriously calumnied this city in the process of making your point. Certainly John Gunther is no adequate authority on the physical condition of any city. His analytical method, that of the itinerant tabula rosa, does not allow him to investigate fully all of the various issues of his allegations. His flat statement that "Cambridge . . . is mostly a slum" disregards the less palmy aspects of this town...
...Ernst Heinkel, who had lost all but one of his plants when the war ended, has been turning out small motors, midget cars. He has started hiring back some of his old designing staff, including Siegfried ("Dixi") Gunther, who designed the dread He 110 twin-engined fighter-bomber...
...Cambridge, the city," wrote John Gunther in Inside U.S.A., "is not what one would expect from photographs of Harvard Yard. Mostly, it's a slum." Today, eight years after Gunther's comment, Cambridge is still mostly a slum. One out of four of the city's homes has no central heating, while an estimated 7500 of the 33,000 dwellings in Cambridge are "seriously deteriorated." The lack of adequate housing and municipal facilities has obviously contributed to the increase of juvenile delinquency in the city. It has also induced many families with young children to move out of Cambridge...
Person To Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow visits Actress Julie Harris, Writer John Gunther...
...Krim, as quoted by Author John Gunther...