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...winners this year include Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.), novelist John Dos Passos, Herbert Hoover, Gen. Edwin Walker, Prof. Richard M. Weaver, John Wayne, columnist David Lawrence, and editor M. Stanton Evans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YAF Awards Rally Planned for March; Goldwater to Speak | 1/17/1962 | See Source »

...Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons and poisons), its range is considerable, its writing often sprightly. Edited by a former chief of Scotland Yard, with contributors (almost all English) extending from Ian Fleming and J. Edgar Hoover to Alan Moorehead and Rebecca West, it boils down a huge vatful of material without losing too much of the original felonious flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bedside Crime | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Discussion, inspired by last fall's Hoover Report on "Harvard and the federal Government," was introduced by Harvey Brooks, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, who "disputed the motion that federal aid had created an imbalance in the universities among cultural sciences, humanities, and social sciences...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Faculty Discusses Government Aid, Sees Trend to More General Grants | 1/10/1962 | See Source »

...have held their own -- though they too are hidden under a fresh coat of white paint; and even the new owners, Brian Halliday and Sy Harberg, have not yet been able to clear the old vaudeville dressing room under the stage of a hallowed rotogravure print labelled (boldly) "President Hoover Greets the Society of Motion Picture Engineers at the White House...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Harvard Square Theatre | 1/10/1962 | See Source »

...triumphs of Karl Marx, and decried, on another occasion, new governmental 'paternalism and socialism.' I was comforted when reading this very familiar language to note that I was in very good company. For the first attack I quoted was on Calvin Coolidge and the second on Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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