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As an undergraduate at Columbia in the early '20s, Adler became a bulldozer for truth. In class he bombarded John Dewey with long letters pointing out ambiguities and contradictions in his lectures. Dewey benignly suffered Adler for several weeks and then ordered a young assistant to call him off...
Died. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 78, iconoclastic educator who became president of the University of Chicago at 30; of kidney disease; in Santa Barbara, Calif. As the youthful dean of the Yale Law School and then president and chancellor of the University of Chicago for 22 years, Hutchins was a foe...
A few Wall Streeters might have preferred Peter Solomon, a managing partner of New York's Lehman Bros., mainly because he was one of their own; Solomon was in the final running for the job. But in Williams, they find few faults. Says Donald Marron, president of Mitchell Hutchins...
That parlor question has been troubling Philosopher Mortimer Jerome Adler, 75, partly because the sage of Aspen has an incurable passion for arranging ideas into categories, partly because this is the 25th anniversary of his proclamation, with the help of Robert Hutchins, of the "Great Books of the Western World...
Powerful Wall Streeters began looking for a replacement last year. One who was considered: Melvin Laird. Two weeks ago, Batten was persuaded to take over the chairmanship while Needham was in Europe. When Needham returned early last week, he was presented with a fait accompli. He resigned. His successor Batten...