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...Department of Preventive Medicine has invited Walter Reuther, Vice President of the AFL-CIO, to speak at the Medical School, after he was rejected as Gay Lecturer on Medical Ethics in favor of Dr. James H. Means, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Emeritus...
Assistant Dean Joseph W. Gardella said last night that the Committee selecting the Gay Lecturer, who must receive Corporation approval, was unsure of Reuther's "qualifications." Gardella added that he and Dean George P. Berry then decided that Reuther "would be wholly inappropriate for a number of reasons," but he did not elaborate...
However, another member of the Committee, which is chaired by Gardella, disclosed that "the Committee was of the opinion that Reuther was a proper candidate for the Gay Lectureship." He added that the group then submitted his name to Berry, who decided that although the labor leader would be interesting for the students, he would not be suitable for the post of Gay Lecturer...
...Militant Reuther, by talking up the need for an "unemployment march" on Washington to dramatize the unemployment problem, swung the news spotlight on the Puerto Rico meeting. Asked in press conference what he would think about such a march, President Eisenhower countered with a rare gibe: "I don't see any good to come out of any such demonstration. I believe that news item came out of Puerto Rico. There people must be on the sunny beaches; I don't know whether they are going to march from there over to this foggy Washington...
...People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," shot back Reuther. He was ready even on a tropical isle with a press release: "Mr. President, I have spent no time on the sunny beaches of Puerto Rico, nor have I been with you and your big business friends on the golf course, the duck blinds or the quail hunts." George Meany, not the thin-skinned sort, tossed off a variation on an old pun: "I haven't seen any of the habitués of the sunny beaches, or the sons of habitues...