Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always entertaining to read about one's own school in an outside publication, especially when the article is featured under such a grandiose title as "Imperial Harvard." In the first of three Harper's articles on different U.S. schools, David Boroff has attempted to communicate what is Harvard by analyzing varied facets of University life. And although some might quibble on points where the article invades their own private worlds, the emerging synthesis is pleasing though vague...
Boroff should be well-equipped as any non-Harvardman to describe Cambridge, 38. He teaches at Brooklyn College, is a literary critic, and was a former prison psychologist--a helpful attribute for dealing with the University. Harper's proudly reports that Boroff talked with deans and hundreds of students, and even ate a Roast Beef Special at Elsie...
...aside from the occasional flaccid generalization, the Harper's presentation does seem to treat many aspects of Harvard accurately and with interest. Diversity in the student body, Harvard aristocracy, tutorial, the growing intellectualism, clubs, and social life--all get the once over in what might be termed a Harvard Sampler...
...shoe section of a crowded Harlem department store, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, 29, Negro leader of the peaceful, successful 1956 Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, was autographing copies of his just-published book, Stride Toward Freedom; The Montgomery Story (Harper & Bros.; $2.95). Suddenly he was confronted by a Negro woman, who demanded: "Are you Mr. King?" King nodded: "Yes, I am." Then Georgia-born Izola Ware Curry, 42, who had lived in New York City on and off for half her life, suddenly flashed a steel letter opener and stabbed King in the upper left side of his chest...
...dismissals also applied to nine Scripps-Howard newspapers and their editors and to historian Kenneth E. Trombley and his publisher, Harper & Bros., New York...