Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interest of history, Harvard's Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger* worked a variation on an old sport page diversion. He asked 55 authorities on American history to pick a kind of alltime, all-star list of U.S. Presidents. The results, listed last week in an article in LIFE, were a heartening commentary on the democratic electoral process. The U.S., in the opinion of the experts, had produced six great Presidents and only two downright failures...
...twin influences of love and the Soviet state. Her father, Finnish-born Otto Kuusinen (now Vice President of the U.S.S.R.'s Supreme Soviet), was an agile ideologist whose fancy footwork had kept him Secretary of the Comintern during the chairmanships of Zinoviev and Bukharin. Hertta's heart interest was stocky, heavy-jowled Tuure Lehen, an ardent young Communist who had won fame as the author of texts on mob fighting and strike tactics. In stolen moments together at Moscow's Lux Hotel, Tuure's whispered tales of the beauties of mob violence made Hertta...
...interest in science had been kindled by accident: at five, visiting his grandfather in Germany, Robert got a little box of minerals as a gift. In time, a collection of rocks from many countries filled the Oppenheimer hallway...
...Interest in social problems and experience in the labor field led to his appointment as general secretary of the Fabian Society in 1935, and to designation as the executive committee of England's growing Labor Party...
According to Miss Gilbert, various voluntary committees will conduct NSA activities in place of last year's nucleus of NSA workers, a means of encouraging college-wide interest in NSA. "Every student as an NSA member is eligible and welcome to work on these committees," she said...