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Other awards were as follows: General Non-fiction--Richard Hofstadter, professor of American History at Columbia, for Anti-Intellectualism in America. History--Sumner Chilton Powell for Puritan Village. Poetry--Louis Simpson for At the End of the Open Road. Merriman Smith, White House correspondent for United Press International, received the prize for national reporting for his coverage last November 22 of the assassination of President Kennedy. No prizes were given, for fiction, music, or drama this year
...LIED VON DER ERDE (Deutsche Grammophon) is Gustav Mahler's masterpiece. The song cycle is a rippling reflection of elegiac Chinese moods that now and then surges up to a torrential "Yes!" This version, with Mezzo Soprano Nan Merriman, Tenor Ernst Hafliger and Conductor Eugen Jochum leading the Concertgebouw Orchestra, even surpasses the excellent recording made by Merriman and Hafliger with the Concertgebouw sev en years...
Unity in diversity was once (perhaps it still is) a legitimate Harvard goal, at any rate so long as the late Roger Bigelow Merriman '02 paced before the lectern in History 1. We may therefore invoke his memory in reminding ourselves that unity does not necessarily mean identity. After all, as the late George Santayana '36 the philosopher declared wisely: "The Negro, if he is not a fool, loves his own inspiration, and expands in the society of his own people...
Such has been the reaction to the press conferences that United Press International's Merriman Smith recently took public notice of heavy mail complaining about press-conference newsmen being rowdy, disrespectful and unkempt. Smith's defense: The fault really lies with the "shotgun mikes," which "have to sweep over a wide-and noisy-section of reporters before settling on the one recognized by the President." Last week, New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, with whimsical tone but considerable feeling, divided the blame between the President and the press. "The President," wrote Reston, "is the chief spokesman...
...President," asked U.P.I.'s Merriman Smith, "do you feel any sense of urgency in catching up with the Russians?" Ike was obviously irritated. "I'm always a bit amazed about this business of catching up," he snapped. "What you want is enough, a thing that is adequate. A deterrent has no added power, once it has become completely adequate, for compelling the respect of any potential opponent." The fiscal 1960 budget, said he, appropriates $6,690,000,000 for missiles, "and this, it seems to me, is getting close to the point where money itself will not bring...