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...prominent Columbia University economist this week resigned from that university's East Central Europe Institute to protest the research center's sponsorship of a speech by a West German professor he believes was an apologist for the Nazi regime during World...
...excellence was Carr Van Anda, the icily intellectual managing editor who once spotted a mathematical error in an Albert Einstein lecture that the Times was about to print. Einstein gratefully acknowledged the mistake. Van Anda also had an eye for circulation-building stunts, such as the Times's sponsorship of polar expeditions by Commodore Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen...
...would deny Christ's divine nature. Without seeing the film, he denounced it as "blasphemy." Others picked up the cry, and soon 18,000 angry letters descended on General Motors, which had put up $3 million toward the cost of the film. The auto company backed out of sponsorship, sacrificing its investment. Said Lord Grade dryly: "General Motors found the program so sensitive and beautiful that they think it would be wrong for a commercial company to take advantage...
...sponsorship of "artists and writers whose talents and achievements are invaluable for understanding Afro-American life and culture...
...sponsorship of "scholarly meetings," seminars and lectures...