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Josephs was elected an overseer in 1957. Since that time he has been chairman of the Overseer's Committee to visit the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and of its Committee on the Graduate School of Public Administration. He has also been a member of the Executive Committee and of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Board Elects Josephs Head Of Overseers | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

The tubby little man in the front row was so short that his primly polished brown shoes barely touched the floor. Eyes blinking behind rimless glasses, he strained last week to catch every word at the Senate Communications Subcommittee hearing. There was much at stake for Homer A. Tomlinson, 66...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taking Out the Splinters | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

When his father gets a job as foreman at a distant cane plantation, he asks Tiger to come along as his assistant and timekeeper. They wind up in a hut at Five Rivers, where sugar cane is life and life is sugar cane. The laborers work under the brutal sun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

He is mild in manner, mellow in voice, retiring with all but his closest friends. He is an Overseer of Harvard, like his father before him, and a conscientious do-gooder who actively aids many a fund drive and charitable organization. Though he makes more money ($402,389 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Prudent Man | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

I cannot understand why anyone who has had a past record of close affiliation with communism should be an Overseer of Harvard and as such responsible for the education of our youth. Such past connections would indicate at the least a certain instability. I can understand why people who have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roosevelt's Letter | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

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