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Died. Joseph Ferdinand ("Professor Sea Gull," "The Mongoose") Gould, 68, self-styled "Last of the Bohemians," colorful, scraggy-bearded habitue of Greenwich Village bars and Bowery flophouses; in Pilgrim State (mental) Hospital, Brentwood, N.Y. A descendant of silk-stockinged Boston families, Harvardman CTI) Gould was a onetime (1916-17) New York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which...
Save the Court. Though the defense acted as if the case were won before it started, U.S. Attorney John C. Crawford Jr. hammered hard at the evidence. Tobacco-chewing Harvardman Crawford paraded 44 witnesses before the court, developed the story of the beatings, insults and threats that added up, he said, to conspiracy to halt integration at the high school-thus violating Little Bob Taylor's injunction. Pounding a fist on a table, Crawford demanded a conviction "to save this honorable court. When an order is issued by this court, it cannot be flouted...
Such an assignment would be hard enough for a Harvardman--after all, what would bring back nostalgic memories to thousands of alumni?--but for a non-Harvardman, it would seem impossible. Suchmann has accepted the challenge, however, and within the space of a few short weeks has probably learned more about Harvard than most undergraduates learn in four years...
...shyly proud report that his correspondence (including a postcard from Mecca) is filed in the special-collections division of the University of Southern California's library, a mass of 10,000 items which must comprise the biggest pile of profound piffle since Greenwich Village's Harvardman Joe Gould compiled his 10 million-word Oral History of Our Time...
...Harvard's revived Divinity School. Last week Chicago lost one of the biggest names of all: Social Scientist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman, 47, whose colleagues have long sensed his growing frustration over a Chicago that seems no longer quite the daring place it once was. In 1958 Harvardman ('31) Riesman will return to his alma mater as its first Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, a chair that was set up to enliven the undergraduate intellectual fare by giving an especially distinguished scholar a "roving commission" to explore and teach as freely as he wants...