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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine field, the American Mercury has done a flip-flop from the iconoclastic days of H. L. Mencken, and in September 1957, a strongly worded article entitled "Harvard Betrays its Heritage" appeared under the byline of Harold Lord Varney, managing editor. Criticizing the Harvard Corporation for its "mawkish tolerance of communism," Varney spoke of "intellectual mushiness," and concluded that the College had "fallen into an era of little men and little men and little safety haunted minds at the Harvard summit...
WASHINGTON, May 19--The nomination of Lewis L. Strauss to be Secretary of Commerce squeaked through the Senate Commerce Committee today on a 9-8 vote. WASHINGTON, May 19--Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy today suspended his plans to resign and said he may not leave the Eisenhower Cabinet...
Daniel M. Fox '59, of Leverett House and New York City, and Arthur L. Kopit '59, of Dunster House and Lawrence, New York, have received Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowships...
Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships were awarded to four students. William F. Anderson '58, who has been studying pre-clinical medicine at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, received one of the fellowships. The others were granted to John P. Demos '59, of Lowell House and Cambridge; Thomas L. Fisher '59, of Claverly Senior House and Omaha, Neb.; and Isaac Kranmick '59, of Winthrop House and Millis...
...London, England, the Rev. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, past president of Britain's Methodist Conference, came out in favor of legalizing mercy killing. General Practitioner Dr. Maurice L. Millard, 58, whose father founded England's Euthanasia Society 22 years ago, had touched off a debate on the subject in the British press with his bland statement in a Rotary Club speech that he had recently given a suffering patient, near death from cancer, a lethal dose of a drug, after she had "made her peace with God" and settled her affairs. "What I did . . . was to give...