Word: macdonald
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Although there is no law against the screening of USIA films in this country, by tradition the agency's efforts are shown only with special Congressional approval. Rep. Torbert H. Macdonald '40 (D-Mass.) introduced the bill obtaining permission for Wednesday's showing. Another bill, presently pending in Congress, would permit the Kennedy documentary to be shown in commercial theatres throughout the nation...
Twenty residents of the nation's intellectual community promptly rushed forth in public support of Lowell. Among them were Novelists Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud; Critics Alfred Kazin and Dwight Macdonald; Poets John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass and Alan Dugan. None of them had been invited to the White House, but that didn't make any difference...
Last Thursday the House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution, sponsored by one of Kennedy's former roommates, Rep. Torbert H. Macdonald '40 (D-Mass.), to allow the Class to see the film during reunion week...
Battling the Bugs. Barring accidents, of course. In 54 years, 30 drivers have lost their lives racing at Indianapolis, and it will be a long time before anybody forgets last year's flaming, seven-car crash that killed Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald. All sorts of new safety rules are in effect. Cars must be equipped with rubber sealers in their gas tanks, and drivers must make at least two stops for fuel-to keep pit crews from filling tanks to the brim, thereby increasing the danger of collision or fire. But as speeds soar at Indy...
...MacDonald, staff writer for The New Yorker and reviewer for will speak on "Confessions of a Literary Journalist" at 8 p.m. to night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...