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...Film Society showing of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is halted by angry members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Troll Association. Chanting "Walt Disney, stop your lies: we're gonna cut you down to size," the protesters topple the projector. In an open letter to the Harvard community, six Nieman fellows denounce the trolls for "seriously undermining the liberties we all hold dear." "This is how things started in Germany," the letter concludes...
...Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post and/or weekly news magazines would be helpful to the broad cause of higher education and to those of us who need access to these periodicals in order to tell our story. Here, again, you can and should use material developed for University purposes (Nieman Convocation, alumni meetings, the fund groups...
Lippmann played a central role in the formation of the Nieman Fellows program, begun in 1937. He advised then-Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14 on the use of money from the bequest of Lucius Nieman, late publisher of The Milwaukee Journal. The money was given to Harvard with the stipulation that it be used for the promotion of better journalism...
Lippmann retained an active interest in the program and often came to Cambridge for its seminars, Louis M. Lyons, former curator of the Nieman Fellowships, said yesterday...
Daniel Ellsberg '52, who spoke to the Nieman Fellows two days before Colby, carried a placard at the demonstration that read, "William Colby Murders Humans and Democracy." He criticized Colby for making "off-record-comments" during the closed meeting...