Word: palmers
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...Manhattan, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York held its Key Award ceremony to honor outstanding women in their chosen professions. Gold keys went to: Mrs. Ralph Bunche (human relations and education); Fleur Cowles (publishing): Mary Margaret McBride (radio); Anita Colby (industry); Lilli Palmer (theater); Arlene Francis (television...
Letter-writers to the Alumni Bulletin in the spring of 1946 were wroth indeed--48 columns wroth, in fact, with amounts of outrage, protest, and indignation thrown in. That spring, it seems, the University had decided to rip down the ancient, tradition-mellowed Dana-Palmer House and erect Lamont Library on its site...
Transient accommodations hardly play the major role in the building's history, however. Once the College observatory, it has provided a home for such notables as Professors F. C. Huntington, George Herbert Palmer, William James, and C. C. Felton, as well as serving as President Conant's house during World...
After Professor George Herbert Palmer arrived, the turret went, and the house received some remodling. Palmer lived there the longest of anyone--from 1884 to 1933, existing on "the decay of Greece", as he put it--and presented the Yard with the last half of the house's name. Richard S. Gummere, retired director of Admissions, occupied it until Conant moved in, dispossesed from his own lodgings by the U. S. Navy. The President moved back down Quincy Street in 1946, and by the next year, the house was in its present location...
...this, then, a strident proclamation announcing the advent of Fascism? Is it an outright prediction of a Palmer-like series of witch-hunts? The editorial reader Livingston attacks is no more than a deeply felt and statistically plausible qualm on our part, one which we hope is needles. Whatever upset reader Livingston's stomach, then, has little to do with such mild grape-juice as out. It involves ingerdients which he himself unjustly read into the editorial...