Word: publisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appraising the value of the courses now being given in General Education is the task of the sub-committee presided over by Kuhn. A sampling of student opinion will be taken, forums will be held in the Houses, and the committee plans to publish a precis of the General Education plan...
...something else. This was a confidential memorandum on foreign affairs which Wallace had written to the President in July. Someone in Wallace's Commerce Department-doubtless thinking that this was an opportune time to embarrass the President-had given a copy to Columnist Drew Pearson, who intended to publish it. PM's I. F. ("Izzy") Stone somehow got a copy too. Other newspapermen demanded to see it. When the press roar became unbearable, bewildered Presidential Secretary Charlie Ross told Commerce to release the letter, and Commerce did. When Harry Truman heard that the letter would be released...
...best reporting . . . of this war." The New York Times, Herald Tribune and leftist PM applauded solemnly. Manhattan newsstands sold out early on publication day. Showman Lee Shubert tried to get the dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Katharine Cornell to take turns reading the 53-page article on the air. Only one dissenting note was heard: a reader in Brooklyn sent back his copy, saying he had read enough about the atom bomb...
...Madrid, Government censors warned all newspapers not to publish any photographs of girls in bathing suits...
Editor Donald M. Blinken '47 is spending three months in England and on the Continent. The Crimson will publish his reports from time to time throughout the remainder of the summer...