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Fresh out of Swarthmore, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa and a terror on the badminton court, Heywood Hale Broun had visions of being "the lovable English professor, the fascinating don, the teacher whose lectures are better than a show...
Harry Truman signed on as honorary chairman, symbolizing, along with James Farley and George Meany, the old guard. Senators Walter Mondale of Minnesota and Fred Harris of Oklahoma represent youngish liberals. There were senior Congressmen from Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas and California. Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta and former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina stand for the moderate South. Other prominent names: Economist Robert Nathan, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action; Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago and North Western Railway Co.; Richard Maguire, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the Kennedy Administration...
...Garrett Morgan introduced a number of life-saving devices, not least of which was the traffic signal. George Washington Carver, of course, transformed Southern agriculture by discovering scores of new uses-from peanut butter to shaving cream-for the lowly peanut, soybean and sweet potato. In medicine, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart operation in 1893, while Dr. Charles Drew pioneered in new techniques to store blood plasma. Drew, ironically, bled to death after he was injured in a car crash-and was turned away by an all-white hospital...
...generation and more, many a hale male has dreamed of beating the draft by persuading the psychiatrist at the induction center that he was some kind of nut. That, however, is going about it the hard way. Men are rejected if they are hypersensitive to bee stings, have a severe ingrown toenail, or even if they have too many-or too obscene-tattoos...
...England letters to take the risk. The company at first leaned heavily on law-and textbooks, publishing some of the most famous U.S. legal treatises, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Common Law. Gradually it moved into general literature, publishing Louisa May Alcott, Edward Everett Hale, Emily Dickinson and William Prescott's histories. Admiral A. T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History remolded military thought when it appeared in 1890. Among Little, Brown's current authors are Samuel Eliot Morison, J. D. Salinger, Bertrand Russell, William Manchester, Peter De Vries, Ogden Nash...