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...proposed renaming of Plympton Street would honor the journalist David L. Halberstam ’55, who died last year. Halberstam, a former managing editor of The Crimson, is no small figure in history. He covered the Civil Rights movement for The New York Times and won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the early Vietnam War, and he wrote more than 20 books before he died in a car crash on the way to an interview almost a year ago. But changing the name of Plympton Street to honor this great man is neither fitting nor appropriate...
There are certainly other ways to honor Halberstam, as well as other journalists and Crimson alumni who deserve to be honored, as Halberstam’s wife pointed out in an interview. Halberstam himself would not be happy to know that a tribute to his memory would also snub his peers and possibly put a landmark out of business. A lover of tradition according to those who worked with him, he would probably have wanted to leave things the way they...
...point is: this city changes, Plympton Street as much as anywhere. Earlier this month, a former mayor of Cambridge proposed renaming the road yet again in honor of his Harvard classmate, David L. Halberstam ’55, who died last year after a storied journalistic career. Like Plympton before him, Halberstam once lived on the street that might bear his name—in the newsroom of The Harvard Crimson, at parcel...
...think there are probably a lot of other Crimson alums who deserve the honor as well,” she added. “I’m more than anything amused...
...honor of Halberstam, his wife established an endowment in October for Teach for America, which sends recent college graduates to teach for two years in underprivileged schools...