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Another of the CIA conduits, the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs in New York, has a Harvard overseer, Amory Houghton Jr., on its board of trustees. FYSA was particularly interested in the International Student Relations Seminars (ISRS), conducted every summer in Cambridge from 1952 until 1960, when it moved first to Philadelphia and then to Washington...
Munn made extensive and often anonymous donations of rare works of English belles-lettres to the Houghton Library. He gave works from his personal collection, as well as works purchased for the library...
...intro from Auntie certainly didn't hurt. "She's absolutely charming, a perfectly natural performer," raved Actress Katharine Hepburn, 57. With that, she presented her niece, Katharine Houghton, 22, at a Hollywood press conference announcing that the lass would be teaming up with Aunt Kate to make a little satire called Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. And guess who introduced young Kath to Producer Stanley Kramer in the first place? Noting the family resemblance, Kramer cast the girl, whose previous experience included two TV shows and an ingénue's role in a Broadway...
...Hilles noted, who could have expected that with Widener, Houghton, and Lamont--"considered by experts to be the finest undergraduate library in the world"--Harvard students would crowd into Hilles as they have...
...BITTER HERITAGE: VIET NAM AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 126 pages. Houghton Mifflin...