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...Kalem (who used to be a TIME books researcher until she married Kalem and became the mother of two children). Their sessions went so well that the resulting cover story may not provide the best illustration of one of Kalem's favorite definitions (by the late Critic Percy Hammond): "Dramatic criticism is the venom from contented rattlesnakes...
...years of displeasure at the doings of latter-day Democratic Presidents. Columnist David Lawrence, a self-proclaimed Wilsonian Democrat, warmed slightly toward John F. Kennedy. Reason for the thaw: at Lawrence's suggestion. Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther retrieved from a Red Cross attic a chrome-plated Hammond portable typewriter on which Self-Taught Typist Wilson personally pecked out many of his most important presidential memos and messages, including the original draft of his famed "Fourteen Points" for ending World War I. No typist himself, J.F.K. gracefully accepted the machine for the growing White House display of memorabilia, invited...
...Cambridge Civic Unity Committee and Judge Walter E. Hammond, a Law School graduate, were called in to rule on the film. Hammond said that he found the movie in "very poor taste," but defended its showing on the grounds of freedom of expression. The Cambridge City Council censured Harvard, but did not prohibit the presentation...
...Faculty approved the final design for future College diplomas at its meeting Tuesday. Drawn up by a committee headed by Mason Hammond, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, the new format will almost definitely be accepted by the Board of Overseers Monday...
...Joseph Berkson, an M.D. and professor of statistics at the Mayo Foundation, rose the next day to proclaim his doubts about Hammond's case. ''We still need to know very much more about the background, environment, diet and medical history for victims of all diseases." he said...