Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another recently-arrived note from a Czech contact point described how Communist poice fired on demonstrating students from Prague's Charles University, and how Boy Scouts and Rotary Clubs throughout the country were disbanded...
...first time since its February debut, the Placement Office's job conference bit a brief note of optimism last night when Claude M. Fuess and Wade L. Grindle told an Eliot House audience that the "door to independent and public school teaching is wide open...
...Garneau, Montreal critic and devoted apostle of French letters, sounded the first sharp note. With apprehension he had watched the rise of such French Canadian writers as Gabrielle Roy, whose Bonheur d'occasion (Accidental Happiness) became a U.S. best-seller as The Tin Flute (TIME, March 17). Her story of a Montreal slum showed unmistakable U.S. influences. Wrote Garneau, in the 1946 literary supplement of Montreal's Le Canada: "We cannot escape the zone of influence of a mighty literary power. If it is not France it will be America." French Canadian authors, said he, should turn...
...true. I am not against individualism, but there is no denying that the average man is happier when part of an integrated group and in fact the essential problem for most people at Harvard, and elsewhere, is loneliness. This is true in any society and the interesting thing to note is what groups the society breaks into. One would hope, at least, that in a highly intellectual community the primary divisions would be along lines of intellectual interest, but Harvard "apathy," with a very few exceptions, is nowhere more apparent than in the failure of those with common intellectual interest...
Last week, President Truman fired Dr. Parran from his top job (he remains in the PHS) without even the usual polite little note of farewell. Washington speculated on the reason. Federal Security Boss Oscar R. Ewing, whose agency controls PHS, explained that Dr. Parran's re-appointment for another four-year term (his fourth) would have made his tenure too long.* Politicians suspected that Parran, who had been New York health commissioner under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, was just one more New Dealer dealt out. Medical experts thought that Parran's leaving, among other things, represented a shift...