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...speeches to his wife in the living room of their 13-room house in Chevy Chase. "I'm the American public," says "Marney" Clifford brightly. "I used to be the average jury." When he is under the stress of big events, she surreptitiously changes his diet "to a sort of baby food...
...exposing another sort of censorship, Nat S. Finney, 44, Washington correspondent of the Cowles Bros.'s Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Des Moines Register & Tribune, last week won the $500 Raymond Clapper memorial award. Last fall, Finney reported, President Truman had approved a "security code" under which Government employees were forbidden to disclose stories "embarrassing" to Government officials. The code was dumped when Finney led the press howl of protest. At the White House Correspondents' dinner, Finney had the satisfaction of getting his check from President Harry Truman, who had made the bobble...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Henry Adams remarked, "was a child of Benvenuto Cellini, smothered in an American cradle." Saint-Gaudens certainly lacked Cellini's proud fire; in his prime he was a jovial, auburn-bearded member of 15 clubs-a frock-coated good fellow of the sort that two world wars have made as nearly extinct as the buffalo-who roared out popular ballads while he worked, and finished the day with dinner at Delmonico's. And unlike the supremely articulate Florentine, Saint-Gaudens simply could not talk about art; he was afraid, he explained, that he would...
...Gardner and Lattes have not as yet discovered anything new about their man-made mesons. But their achievement has excited nuclear physicists all over the world. For the first time they have access to mesons, and can study them under controlled laboratory conditions. A technical advance of this sort has often led to important theoretical discoveries...
...basic issue is a simple one: should undergraduates be allowed to organize into such groups as a Radcliffe Young Republican Club or a Radcliffe Young for Democracy? The Council should produce an equally simple answer: Radcliffe students, like Wellesley students and Harvard students, have every right to form any sort of group as long as it is a bona fide Radcliffe organization and as long as it does not duplicate the functions of other organizations in the College...