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...three years after he graduated (magna) from Amherst, Robert Kiely was discharged from the Navy where he had been a communications officer and came to Harvard as a graduate student. His doctoral thesis, submitted in 1962, was titled "From Daydream to Modern Epic: A Study of the Adventure Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson." With his PhD, he joined the junior faculty of the English Department, and published his first book, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure, three years later. "The question," wrote Kiely in his introduction, "is whether ... Stevenson has value for the mature reader. My object...
...effects of the McCarthy Era. J. Anthony Lukas '55 was busy covering the McCarthy hearings in Boston for The Crimson. Lukas was one of the few Associate Managing Editors ever to divide successfully his time between Widener Library and 14 Plympton--a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he graduated magna cum laude. Lukas found his true calling was in journalism and not in academics, though, and in 1968 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for an article he did for The New York Times on the background of a girl who had been murdered in the East Village...
Chandler will graduate magna cum laude from the college Wednesday. However, Daniel M. Melley, public affairs director for the university, said yesterday that many of Chandler's professors have advised against his admission to the graduate program. "You have to stop and think about admitting a guy who says that he has nothing left to learn from the school," Melley said...
...over well in union halls: "Nixon is a man obsessed with power. What he cares about is money and military power, bucks and bombs." But it is an uphill battle. At the Polish-American Congress convention in Detroit this month, Shriver offered what he called a seven-point "Ethnic Magna Carta," but he received much less applause than Spiro Agnew, who simply reminded the audience how close the President felt to them. Agnew and Nixon received another kind of ethnic compliment in Chicago when Frank Sinatra once again emerged from retirement. Changing the lyrics of The Lady Is a Tramp...
Butcher, who joined the bank in 1947 after graduating magna cum laude from Brown, has much experience in areas where Chase could be stronger. He worked in retail banking as a branch manager and proved himself adept at foreign finance as chief of Chase's international division. Describing Butcher, Rockefeller used the words aggressive, decisive, dynamic, driving. The chairman himself likes to chart broad policy and leave day-to-day operations to other executives. Rockefeller, the bank's largest single shareholder, owns about 1% of Chase's stock, worth some $17 million; last year he collected more...