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Working on The Crimson with Lukas was David L. Halberstam '55, the paper's Managing Editor. Halberstam is profuse in his praise of The Crimson during that period. "Working for The Crimson was marvelous, exciting," he said recently. "The development of my critical faculty as a reporter. I believe, is a product of my Crimson years. We learned adversary reporting in the best sense of the word." Indeed, The Crimson of the Halberstam-Lukas years is remembered by most as being particularly watchful and wary of the Administration. Years later, when Halberstam was reporting from Vietnam he sent back some...
...Crimson did in fact inspire the advocate in Halberstam, and after graduation he left the sheltered environment of Cambridge to take a job with the West Point, Mississippi Daily Times Leader, the smallest daily in the state. Halberstam thought the 1954 Supreme Court ruling against segregation would bring profound changes in the South, and he wanted to be part of the action. He worked in Mississippi for four years and then travelled to Tennessee, where he covered race relations for The Nashville Tennesean. Looking for a change, Halberstam left-the country to report in Vietnam for The New York Times...
...were there in those days and saw that there were things which had to be told which did not sit well with all the community, we've profited from that, I've profited from it, I think all the rest of us have too. Mr. Halberstam spoke several minutes ago about the lack of awe for figures in respect which The Crimson taught the people of his generation. Well, saying we learned a lack of awe is like saying that Spiro Agnew has overcome shyness in the White House. It was like a sense of awe was not the biggest...
...Best and the Brightest, Halberstam...
NONFICTION 1-The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam (1) 2-Harry S. Truman, Truman (2) 3-I'm O.K., You're O.K., Harris (3) 4-The Joy of Sex, Comfort (6) 5-Supermoney, "Smith" (4) 6-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (5) 7-"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye," O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (9) 8-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot 9-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (7) 10-Blackberry Winter, Mead