Word: particulars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have inadvertently reported [Feb. 9] a gravely damaging misstatement from the Sunday Express. The points of misstatement were many but one in particular which attributed to me the statement that I am alive and Christ is not was so damaging to the Christian church that I took immediate legal advice and the Express kindly and forthwith inserted a letter in which I denied making any such statement, adding that to me Christ was never more alive than he is today...
Monro hopes that if other Masters can arrange it, he will be able to rotate his room among the Houses and thus not be identified with any one House in particular. He indicated that he would use the room for study, writing, and occasionally for entertaining guests...
What the Air Force in particular, and the Armed Forces in general, should recognize is that publicity can consist of a relatively simple alert in advance--such as those available for the satellites and lunar probes which have been launched by the National Agency for Space and Aeronautics as part of the IGY. Attempts to conceal the entire operation may prevent public embarrassment in case of failure, but they can also diminish scientific value in case of success...
Sarah Lawrence girls in particular questioned the value of having many "great scholars" on the teaching faculty. "It is not always the great scholar who makes the great teacher," Miss Deborah L. Day, Sarah Lawrence '59, observed...
...school had not paid his tuition with a $200 scholarship, Krumb wrote later, "I would not have been a mining engineer." As things turned out, Columbia had good reason to congratulate itself on its openhandedness. Henry Krumb grew rich as an internationally famed mining consultant, and in particular as an authority on low-grade copper ore. He sought to repay his debt in many ways, served as a trustee from 1941-47, and gave some $550,000 over the years to the university...