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For many years in many nations, men have waged the battle for freedom of expression. In modern days, the means of mass communication--newspapers, magazines, radio, and motion pictures--have arisen as a new and vital factor in that fight. This exceptionally clearly-written Report has contributed one of the...
It was a difficult document in more ways than one. The first draft was written by Archibald MacLeish, the final one by Chairman Robert Maynard Hutchins and Robert D. Leigh (director of the Commission staff). In between, every line was "hammered out in conference and correspondence." What survived was, presumably...
Hutchins Converted
After 12 years Conant returned to Harvard, its green yard, ivy vines, it's 10,000 men (and bicycling girls from Radcliffe), its tradition dating back four centuries. His reclining years, Schlesinger writes, were spent among his test tubes and his friends. Yale University conferred on him the degree, Doctor...
Elliott Roosevelt peered ahead at life without price controls, reported back: "You will see bread at $15 a loaf." Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago, peeked around the atomic corner and saw "an era of leisure and plenty," but he was not happy. "If we are not...