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...Lever Bros., where it's in to give brief, breezy names to executives as well as products (All, Lux, Vim, Wisk, Spry), Milton C. Mumford is addressed by colleagues and referred to in company publications merely as "Milt." Along with the little names, however, go big titles: Mumford, 51, has been president and chief executive of Unilever's U.S. arm since 1959; last week he became chairman as well, succeeding retired William H. Burkhart. Illinois-born and educated (University of Illinois '35), Mumford came to soapmaking Lever Bros., ten years ago from towelmaking Fieldcrest Mills. As president...
...recipients at Harvard with their projects, in parentheses are Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government (A study of the fall of the French Third Republic and of the Vichy regime from 1934 to 1944, focused on domestic politics and particularly on the French Right). Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor Emeritus of the Humanities (Studies in American thought...
Bate, in fact, deals with the same questions Keats did. The intellectual specialization Bate mentions in his Preface applies to critics as well as to artists, and Bate's problem is, how does scholarship use scholarship? Howard Mumford Jones, on his retirement, lay down an eloquent answer...
...program notes for the New York Idea, Howard Mumford Jones reports that one historian has called the play American social comedy at its best. If true, this is an appalling indictment of native playwrights. The New York Idea is a feeble conception indeed, too "smart" to be clever, too-contrived to be good farce, too maudlin to be good comedy. It is also incredibly dated...
Among the speakers is John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. Finley will deliver a speech entitled "The Inward Voice of the Classics" this morning. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, will also speak today...