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...Conant really didn’t think that somebody who took the Fifth Amendment deserved to be kept on, and said so,” Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern,” told The Crimson in 2004. “Pusey, who had clashed with McCarthy in Wisconsin...was stronger on academic freedom than Conant...
DIED. ARNIE MORTON, 83, restaurateur who in 1960, with Hugh Hefner and Victor Lownes, launched the first Playboy Club and then founded Morton's, the steak-house restaurants; of cancer; in Deerfield, Ill. His original Chicago eatery, opened in 1978, got a boost after Frank Sinatra dined there one night, and the newly dubbed "steak house for the rich" soon expanded to other cities...
August Wilson's mom, a cleaning woman trying to raise four kids in the Pittsburgh slums, won a radio contest once. She named the product that went with the ad slogan "When it rains, it pours" (Morton salt), and the prize was a new Speed Queen washing machine. When the station found out she was black, Wilson recounts, his mother was offered instead a certificate for a used washing machine from the Salvation Army. Friends told her to take it anyway; it was better than the old washboard she was using to scrub her kids' clothes. But she refused. "Something...
Still, it remained hard for the Americans to believe that they had been ensnared by the very process they had been sent to combat. One prisoner, Morton Brooks, “hesitated to make any connection between his own Jewishness, [that of the European prisoners], and the shared fate that had befallen them...
...while the religious backgrounds of the first 80 were betrayed by their names—names like Morton Goldstein, Harold Silberstein, and Israel Cohen—the final 270 GIs, most of whom were Christian, were chosen because they “looked Jewish,” caused trouble, or were needed to fill the work camp’s quota...