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...Editor's Note: Since 1937, Harvard has annually hosted a dozen American and three foreign journalists under arrangement with the Nieman Foundation. Larry L. King, 41, a novelist and Contributing Editor to Harper's magazine, was a Nieman Fellow in 1969-70. The current issue of Harper's contains an 8,000 word article, Blowing My Mind at Harvard, by Mr. King. This article-which will appear in the CRIMSON in two installments-is extraneous to that piece, largely treating the Cambridge appearances last spring of authors Norman Mailer and William Styron, though making other comments pertinent to the Harvard...
...Nieman Fellows were not long in discovering that only the most Establishmentarian of faculty members or newspaper executives appeared at our official seminars. We were supplied no students, no blacks, no national politicians, no literary stars, no one likely to make waves-not even the most celebrated of Harvard's faculty lights. Our immediate predecessors-the Nieman class of 1968-69-had rebelled against such intellectual pabulum. In their case, the Nieman Curator (a former editorial page editor of the late New York Herald-Tribune, and a man of humorless mien) had proved so unyielding they were obliged to fund...
...absurdity and pathos of old-line Faculty members caught in the crunch of new Faculty politics is no better illustrated than in a confrontation last winter between Adam Yarmolinsky, professor of Law, and Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, before the Nieman Fellows...
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...year-old orphan when he went to Chicago from the West Virginia coal fields in 1930. He played pro baseball "for $65 a month and hamburgers" in Iowa, until he saved enough money to go to the University of Michigan. With time out for the Army and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, he has worked for the News almost continually since 1939. In Washington, Old Pete never flaunts his unique eminence, but he obviously enjoys it. When a friend called to ask if a big story had been leaked to him-he had a 24-hour beat...