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...think we will probably look for a woman [to replace Gray],” said Corporation member James R. Houghton ’58, who is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Corning Incorporated...
...Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 391 pages) began in early spring 2001 with a single sentence, not one of Roth's own but a chance comment by the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who speculates in his autobiography that in 1940 some right-wing members of the Republican Party considered drafting the pioneering pilot Charles Lindbergh as a presidential candidate. "That's it," Roth chuckles over the phone, surprisingly relaxed and wry for a man who jealously guards his privacy. "That's all it took. It should always be that easy...
...magazine has been the chronicler of American food trends and fantasies, providing advice and inspiration for generations of home cooks. Now, after 60 years, the best of that advice and more than 1,200 of the magazine's recipes have been revamped for modern kitchens in The Gourmet Cookbook (Houghton Mifflin...
...many people remember the shocking presidential election of 1940, when aviation pioneer and confirmed isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Philip Roth imagines it with eery clarity in The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 400 pages), out Oct. 5, an all too plausible work of counter-history in which Roth re-creates his New Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically...
Though the archive itself will be housed and made available to the public in Houghton Library, the Davis Center has a number of related human rights programs in the works, the staff member said...