Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only one of the three other Warren chairs had been filled--by the late Mark DeWolfe Howe, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law--and finding a legal historian of Howe's stature (there aren't many legal historians in the first place) will be difficult. The remaining chairs are even more specialized--on the history of religion in America (though the divinity school may be close to announcing an appointment) and on the history of American education...
...with each other in a heated trivia contest (who were the members of the Rinkydinks?). When the quartet collides with a Negro cab driver (Godfrey Cambridge), their debate rises to tidal proportions, only to unroil when the cabbie turns out to be a convert to Judaism. The mourners arrive late for the services and giggle derisively as a rabbi (Alan King) intones a gross caricature of a eulogy for the dead-before they finally discover that they have stumbled into the wrong funeral...
...mere thought of writing a book on a subject that the late James Thurber tackled should produce writer's block in any author now living. Thurber's The Years with Ross was an epitaph that the volatile and volubly profane founder and editor of The New Yorker would himself have pronounced definitive. Jane Grant has one advantage, and only one, that Thurber lacked: she was Ross's first wife (of three) and helped him start The New Yorker. In fact, she says openly what too many wives secretly believe about their husband's successes: "He would...
...three ROTC units are today among the oldest in the nation. These units were conceived in the atmosphere of internationalism which for many years was Harvard's political character in an isolationist America. The original Army unit was formed largely in response to widespread student demand, when, in late 1915, 1200 men of Harvard enlisted in a new drill unit within a few days of its creation. When ROTC programs were created by the Navy 1926) and the Air Force (1947), the University applied at once for the new units, and today Harvard is one of the few universities...
Kennedy's candidacy has obvious advantages. The former attorney general is an experienced national campaigner who managed his late brother's Presidential victory in 1960. Kennedy has a greater knowledge of the Byzantine ways of state and urban Democratic power groups whose partial backing any anti-war candidate will eventually need to overturn the President at the Chicago convention. Kennedy can command the funds for the massive media campaign that will be required to maintain the momentum McCarthy started Tuesday. On both counts, McCarthy is lacking, and the deficiencies could all too easily make his challenge futile...