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...archbishopric of Salzburg, has become the first teaching center in Europe for advanced study of American civilization. One of the few real attempts ever made to unite Americans and Europeans culturally, the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies has expanded far beyond the original hopes of its founder, Clemens Heller...
...early post-war years, Heller and a friend of his, Richard D. Campbell, Jr.'48, had pushed the idea of an American seminar in Europe. When the widow of the famed German producer, Max Rinehart, offered to donate Leopoldskron to them, they were able to enlist the support of such influential figures as ex-President Conant, and received the sponsorship of the Student Council and the International Student Service. But funds were still difficult to raise. Heller and the other Americans sweated out the first session in the summer of 1947. The war in Europe had ended only two years...
...Heller returned to Harvard with an enthusiastic recommendation that the Seminar be continued for at round cultural center with a budget of over $100,000 a year. Now, the Rockefeller Foundation and two similar groups contribute 50 percent; the other half is dependent upon contributions from private individuals in the United States and student groups at Harvard, Smith, Radcliffe, and Vassar. Phillips Brooks House, through it Combined Charities Drive, supports the Seminar at Harvard...
...Mukden. There the Chinese held three U.S. fliers (none of them listed among the eleven convicted airmen): Captain Harold Fischer of Swea City, Iowa, Lieut. Lyle Cameron of Lincoln, Neb. and Lieut. Roland Parks of Omaha. MacKenzie said that he corresponded later with a fourth U.S. pilot, Colonel Edwin Heller of Philadelphia, who was in a Chinese hospital recovering from leg wounds...
...addition to the eleven already listed as convicted on espionage charges. The four, named by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., were Lieut. Lyle W. Cameron, 25, of Lincoln, Neb., shot down while on an armed reconnaissance flight over North Korea, and Lieut. Colonel Edwin Heller, 36, of Wynnewood, Pa., Captain Harold E. Fischer. 29, of Swea City, Iowa, and Lieut. Roland W. Parks, 25, of Omaha, all downed while on combat missions over North Korea. The General Assembly resolution last week called for action on all 15 uniformed men (but it did not cover...