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...charge of this permissive atmosphere is Michael Spock, 35, eldest son of the famed baby doctor and himself the father of three. "Children get enough instruction in school," he says. "We're trying to make the world where a child grows up understandable to him - that part of the world you have to reach out with your hand and touch to really know about...
Grandfather's Cellar. Michael Spock recalls that his father was reasonably strict ("I knew exactly what the limits were and how he felt about things") and ingenious about rigging a staircase for children to climb up on the examining table by themselves ("The kids loved it"). But Michael feels that the main thrust for his career came from his own youthful enthusiasm for art and science museums. When he became director of his museum six years ago, he staged the kind of exhibit that would have' fascinated him as a boy. Called "What's Inside," it featured...
...current exhibit, Spock has remodeled an old auditorium. One result is "Grandfather's Cellar," a nook that introduces children to the world their grandparents knew. It contains a washtub with hand wringer, a coffee grinder, butter churn, mechanical apple peeler and a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio-all in working order. In the Algonquin Indian exhibit, children who once learned about Indians by watching a movie and looking at artifacts now grind maize in stone mortars, chip arrowheads and munch dried berries...
Brewster reportedly asked for the article's removal because he felt that it would appear almost simultaneously with the conclusion of Spock's trial in Boston, at which Spock and three others were accused and later convicted of conspiring to encourage draft resistance. Brewster also reportedly felt that publication of such an article would appear close to the time when the Yale Corporation was considering the re-appointment of Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., one of Spock's co-defendants...
...News reported that Brewster wrote to Tony Jones, the editor of the magazine, as soon as he heard about publication of the article on Spock. Brewster found out about the article from Howard Phalen, Yale's director of operations and head of its massive new fund drive, who had heard about the story from a Philadelphia alumnus, who in turn had heard about it from Jones in a speech given to the Philadelphia Yale Club last spring...