Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bonanza. In Vienna, with $4,000 inherited from an uncle, Landon arranged for the recording of four rarely heard Haydn symphonies by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, led by young U.S. Conductor Jonathan Sternberg. Then he hit a bonanza; he persuaded a friend to invest $13,000 in the Haydn Society, assuring him it would "pyramid faster than Florida real estate." With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass, which sold 5,000 copies, put the society...
...later years Roosevelt always used to tell the White House correspondents that he felt on a par with them because of his CRIMSON days. Jonathan Daniels, who was his press secretary for a year, said, "Franklin Roosevelt never quite got over having been an editor of the Harvard CRIMSON." On cruises, when newspaper men got sick, he frequently offered to write their dispatches for them...
...then gentle counsel--on first offense. If the wicked fail to learn, the Masters may ask them to resign from the College, or at worst, suspend or expel from the College, or at worst, suspend or expel them from Yale. This happens rarely. French, who has been master of Jonathan Edwards since the College masters started, has "fired" only two students. Discipline is more the problem of the College masters than the Dean's Office. No matter where the offense occurs, and even if the difficulty is purely academic, the master is called into consultation. His advice holds the most...
Like the Houses, Colleges have developed reputations. Davenport, Pierson, Branford, and Calhoun are ellegedly the homes of the socially prominent the "white shoe men," and hence the most desirable. Berkeley, Jonathan Edwards, and Timothy Dwight fit into a middle caste. Silliman is the home of vigorous but not big time extroverts, and Trumbull and Saybrook are shunned as "black shoe" choices. These dis- tinctions are pretty spurious since a Council of Masters carefully plants a balance of high school men, prep school men, and scholarship students in each College. Fraternities don't rush until the sophomore year, when students have...
...Independence, by Jonathan Daniels. The best of the biographies of Harry Truman, spiced with candid presidential comments on political contemporaries at home & abroad (TIME...