Word: midwesternisms
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Milwaukee, ancient home of German-American brewers, will be the mecca for thousands of Harvard men this week as the Associate Harvard Clubs open their 50th anniversary meeting tomorrow in the midwestern malt center. At the conclave, which will last for three days, countless University officials, including President Conant and alumni notables are scheduled to report on the state of the Harvard community...
...like being a poet," sighed Adolf Dehn. "You don't make money at it." For 20 years his lithographs of round-bellied priests, frock-coated bankers, mountain landscapes and Midwestern barnyards had been finding their way into museums and the portfolios of connoisseurs. But stocky, Minnesota-born Adolf Dehn wanted a quicker and handsomer welcome from fortune than Ralph Blakelock got (see above...
Chicago's ex-mayor, Ed Kelly, still one of the country's shrewdest political observers, dropped into the White House last week with a few Midwestern Democratic committeemen for an informal chat. On his way out, Ed Kelly made a little prediction about the man he had just seen: "Unless he gets hit by a freight train, he's going to be around for a long time...
Ohio University has chosen President Conant to deliver the commencement address at that institution's spring graduation exercises, early in June. He has agreed to speak out of friendship for Ohio U. President John C. Baker, who served as associate dean here before going out to the midwestern school...
...acidulous David Zaslavsky, journalistic gadfly of the Western World, is "an amiable man who looks like anybody's favorite grandfather." On the mass tour, the Associated Press's Wes Gallagher found that Peter Pospelov, Pravda's editorial chief, "looks like a member of a Midwestern legislature." Pravda gets 15,000 letters a month from its readers, only 40 or 50 of them complaints...