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...needier, Raphael Demos, 70, holder of Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). The goal: to plumb "who we are, what we know, and how we know it." A Greek immigrant who worked his way through Harvard as janitor of the Lampoon building, Christian Platonist (The Philosophy of Plato) Demos roiled Cambridge with Socratic questioning for 45 years. The aim of education, he argued, after Socrates, is to become more human by learning "the depths of one's ignorance." Demos abhorred specialization, the cult of knowing more about...
Charles Wood had, until three years ago, worked as a janitor at the British Ford plant in Dagenham, Essex. Since his retirement, he and his wife Marie had been hoarding every shilling against the day that they could take off for a visit to Marie's sister, who lived in Corpus Christi, Texas. Last week they sailed into New York harbor on the Queen Elizabeth. As careful budgeters, they had already purchased their tickets for every step of the way: round-trip from New York to Texas and back on American Airlines, one-way back to Britain...
...were Ellen Jameson (Wilson's girl, Scarlett) who, a Putney girl herself, managed to give her ingenue role a certain amount of real emotion; Susan Stockard (Peter's sister Suzy), who plays a too-much-too-soon high school girl with wacky charm; and Pete Foster, a Leverett House janitor, whose impersonation of himself is a stroke of consummate artistry...
...doctors say that they left Cuba because they could not stomach the loss of freedom under Castro-for themselves as physicians, for their children as future citizens. Castro's policies have made a mockery of medicine. To head one reputable clinic, the regime nominated a janitor. In a major clinic it installed the barber as administrator, with the switchboard operator as his assistant. Says one displaced doctor: "Practice is terrible...
Died. W. (for William) Alton Jones, 70, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co. and board chairman of Richfield Oil Co., a Missouri farmer's son who rose from a janitor's job to become one of the nation's wealthiest executives, guided Cities Service out of a pre-Depression debt of $500 million to its present billion-dollar assets by a policy of worldwide expansion, won national gratitude for pushing through the World War II construction of the Big and Little Inch pipelines; in the Idlewild jet crash...