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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During the past week I had the opportunity to make use of the Phillips Brooks Housing List in looking for an apartment for a married couple who are friends of mine. The couple happens to be Negro; I am not. In checking into the various names on the list, I would approach a landlord or superintendent inquiring as to whether or not they still had vacancies, to which the answer was often affirmative. My next question was whether or not these people would rent to Negroes, and more often than not the answer was negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE DISCRIMINATION | 9/25/1958 | See Source »

Harvard will welcome his return. Karim had been a good student. Like his younger brother Amyn, a junior this year, the prince had made the dean's list. One of his roommates was Adlai Stevenson's youngest son, John Fell, who said: "His friendship is loyal and thoughtful, and he gives more than he takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Student Prince | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...using Heritage profits, have spent more than $370,000 in promotion, mailed more than 3,000,000 brochures to English teachers, art-book buyers, charge-account customers at quality department stores, subscribers to the Book-of-the-Month Club, Heritage, the Saturday Review and Harper's, and a list broker's miscellaneous collection of 500,000 "cultured individuals." The result: before publication, Horizon said it had 145,000 takers (for a press run of 225,000 copies) at $15 for the year's six issues, $3 less than the regular subscription price. Horizon estimates its break-even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Culture on the Horizon | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Dean Kerby-Miller emphasized the academic achievements of the past year when she noted that 57 per cent of this year's sophomores, juniors and seniors were on the Dean's List, and 53 percent of the Class of '58 graduated with honors, one-fifth of them with Magnas or Summas...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: Cermony Marks Opening of 'Cliffe's Eightieth Year | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...Royal Air Force Benson Rowing Club had an impressive list of triumphs to its credit. With an average weight of 12 stone 8--176 pounds--the RAF men had an immediate 27-pound advantage a man. They had defeated Clare College of Cambridge, the Isis Boat Club of Oxford, and the Crowland Rowing Club handily...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Royal Regatta at Henley on Thames | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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