Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations had joined UNESCO, a body with an unwieldy name and an unwieldier problem: the crisis in world culture. Was UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) the right way to attack the problem? At Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week, English Art Critic Herbert Read asked that question. His answer...
Your Health, Sir. In York, England, the will of the late, bald Herbert Wood, who had once caught a nasty cold when he removed his hat at a funeral, considerately directed that the men at his funeral remove their hats "for not more than a few minutes...
...week, Earl Hart was energetically directing the primary campaign from a parlor-bedroom in Cleveland's Carter Hotel. A slight, intense man with a palm-of-the-hand knowledge of Ohio politics, Hart was-campaign manager for Senator Harold Burton in 1940, for Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert in 1946. Eastern headquarters in New York's Sheraton Hotel is headed by an affluent New Jersey lawyer named Amos Peaslee. In Philadelphia, Jay Cooke, great-grandson of the Civil War financier and a onetime G.O.P. candidate for the U.S. Senate, is in charge. In Chicago, active Stassen supporters...
...decide the question, the Labor government permitted a rare "free vote." Laborites could vote as they chose without regard to the official party stand. Only 75 Labor M.P.s heeded House Leader Herbert Morrison's plea to keep the death penalty. As the teller reported that 245 had voted to abolish the penalty, 222 to keep it, M.P.s cheered, shouted, wept and threw papers into...
Lowell House: Robert B. Clark '48, Edward P. Healy '47, Donald M. Landis '50, George C. Lodge '50, Francois J. Malle '50, David C. Poskanzer '50, Herbert J. Spiro '50, R. David Young...