Word: nieman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant will be interviewed by Louis M. Lyons, curator of Nieman Fellowships and news analyst on the non-commercial, educational television and radio stations...
...member of the first group of Nieman Fellows at Harvard in 1938, Reporter Lahey used the year to round out his scant formal education and "cure the worst damn inferiority complex about college you ever saw." Salty Ed Lahey became a hit with the faculty, was cultivated by Felix Frankfurter, then a Harvard Law School professor, and other faculty members who delighted in the newsman's flair for deflating campus stuffed shirts. When a notoriously long-winded instructor finally wound up his lecture one day, Ed Lahey inquired slyly: "Would you mind summarizing that last point...
...philosophy perishing for failure to publish and to brethren perishing because they have published, to old men reading Plato, to seniors with black goatees and to juniors cultivating Harvard's air of indifference by nodding in class, we extend a glad word. A day of rare Thanksgiving to Nieman and Ford Fellows and other itinerant scholars, and a thought for the girls sitting sideways on the Memorial Church steps. To frustrated souls reading Kinsey in the stacks, to writers whose books have not been reviewed, to students late for lectures, and lecturers who know no applause, a day of relaxation...
...Stone, a Nieman Fellow, is an editorial writer for the Southland (New Zealand) Times...
Services for the noted historian and author, a Cambridge resident, will be held at 2 p.m. today in Christ Church. His widow has asked that flowers be omitted and that friends make donations to the Nieman Fellowship instead...