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Today he is head of Manhattan's Iranian Institute, is conceded to know more about the general subject than any other living man. One woman knows more: his wife and onetime pupil, Dr. Phyllis Ackerman. Surrounded at home by Persian books, pots, cats, he is intolerant of contemporary Western art, architecture, music, hates jazz. Says he: "The assertive egotism of Western artists, the adulation that has so often inflamed their conceit, the assumption that they are apart from common life, unique in endowment and thereby in license, would have puzzled the cultivated Persian in every period except the most...
...country's oldest college as its only college, will be replaced by a much more cosmopolitan realization of Harvard's place in the American scene. No one-sided concern, the Committee can also put some weight on the other side of the scales. Harvard should be a diligent pupil, but it can also be a very efficient schoolmarm. And the cordial relations established by the Committee will be a potent factor in selling Harvard's ideas on the American educational market...
...general theme of "Language and Life," the morning sesion will open a panel of discussion of "Propaganda as the High School Pupil Sees It." Horace Kidger, head of the history department of Newton High School, will conduct the discussion with five students from his classes...
Died. Rudy Wiedoeft, 46, idolized saxophonist of the '205, whose pupil, Hubert Prior Vallee, adopted his teacher's first name to express admiration of his teaching; of a stomach ailment; in Flushing...
...political satirist and pamphleteer, Schoolmaster Dove had original ideas about running a school. When a pupil played truant, Schoolmaster Dove sent a committee to his house. The committee went through the streets carrying lighted lanterns, loudly calling the boy's name - "a sad exposure for the juvenile culprit," said a chronicler. Said one of Dove's former pupils, Judge Richard Peters: "He was a sarcastic and ill-tempered doggerelizer, who was but ironically Dove. . . ." One of his fellow tutors was Charles Thomson, later secretary of the First Continental Congress. Lodging with Schoolmaster Dove and his wife, Tutor Thomson...