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...Rostow Included...
...addition to the University men, Professors Walt W. Rostow of Oxford, an economist; Richard Schlatter of Rutgers, and Elispeth Davies of Sara Lawrence, historians; and Margaret Mead of Columbia, a cultural anthropologist, have joined the Salzburg faculty...
Social Sciences 3a and 3b. The Institutions and Thought of Western Society (fall and winter terms). Associate Professor Romans and Assistant Professor Rostow. Limited to Freshmen and Sophomores...
...Walt W. Rostow (Yale '36) was a Rhodes Scholar just before the war. He enlivened many an Oxford sherry party by banging out a syncopated protest of his own composition (Claustrophobia Blues) on the piano. When not busy harmonizing or playing rugger for Balliol College, he was apt to be heavily engaged in a bull session. Later he got his Ph.D. at Yale and taught economics at Columbia before spending 32 wartime months abroad, ending up as an O.S.S. major in bombing intelligence. On that assignment he got to know W. Averell Harriman, who as U.S. Ambassador later...
...Oxford, Professor Rostow plans to resume his bull sessions and his pianoplaying, in addition to lecturing on "Economic Factors in American Politics." His thesis might have pleased the man who endowed the chair: "America is a pretty interesting place, and Britons ought to learn more about...