Word: stewart
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...week's few really engaging news items, permitting escape from Watergate, involves Douglas Stewart McKelvy, a Yale man who liked his liquor, his fellow topers and his own boozy sense of humor. When he died on March 14 of a liver ailment, at age 41, he left a will that extended his benevolence, posthumously, to all three. Along with bequests to his two children, he donated $6,000 to each of two favorite East Side Manhattan bars "to defray the cost of liquid refreshments for their patrons until such sums shall be exhausted." A millionaire by inheritance ("He didn...
...worked with the best kids in the nation," said Francis Donahue, who is retiring after 50 years as business director of the Yale Daily News. The kids -the likes of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. and National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr.-have collected $80,000 to buy Donahue an annuity. Who was the most impressive chairman of the News during his half century? "Buckley, hands down," says Donahue. "He'd always throw out ads to run anti-Buckley letters...
With holdover Justices Byron White and Potter Stewart also tending toward that view, the court seems to have taken a right turn in criminal cases. As Simon puts it, 4N + X = L.A.O.-that is, four Nixon nominees plus White or Stewart equals law-and-order. Surprisingly, there has been little erosion of desegregation decisions or of one-man, one-vote reapportionment cases. Indeed, "except in the criminal area, the individual rights won under the Warren Court still stand." But, in Simon's judgment, "for the new interest groups, such as environmentalists, the new court direction suggests that they...
Other arguments in the editorial appear to me not worth rebuttal. It should be remarked that the whole fiery issue revolves around a minor restriction on just five meals a week. Zeph Stewart Master of Lowell House
...Harvard facilities, first and foremost, and the excluded students are Harvard students. The food comes from one food service, the menus are standardized, and in some cases the kitchens involved are the same. The problem is caused by the narrow attitude of individual House Masters typified by Zeph Stewart's reported comments about not letting the black ants and the red ants eat together...