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Almost two years ago, big, amiable Robert Harlan Van Gelder quit his job as editor of the New York Times Book Review to write his first novel. On the strength of his name, an opening chapter and an outline of what was to come, his publishers had given him an unprecedented advance of $20,000. For all of three days (a long life for that kind of gossip), it was the talk of the trade...
...Delancey K. Jay Prize went to Robert G. McCloskey 2G for his thesis "The American Conservative Tradition, 1865-1910." For it McCloskey received $300. Harlan P. Hanson '46 was the recipient of the John A. Walz, Jr. Prize as the concentrator in German who passed the best divisional examination...
...wife Edith (who was a veteran of Anderson's lists by now). Among the new ones: Ambassador to Argentina James Bruce; Winthrop Brown, chief of the State Department's Division of Commercial Policy; Harry C. Westphal, secretary to South Dakota's Republican Senator and Agriculture Committeeman Harlan J. Bushfield...
According to Harlan T. Stetson, director of M.I.T.'s celestial research station at Needham, this is the worst year for sunspots in 200. And sunspots do not only cause static, radio blackouts, and northern lights, but also extremities of weather behavior...
Tattletale. In Harlan, Ky., police hunting a grocery burglar had no trouble trailing Claude Large, who had spilled the beans...