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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor unmarried undergraduate who meets nothing but impersonality from the great Harvard bureaucracy should get married. "Harvard Wives" gives motherly advice on everything from raising chinchillas to training horses. Mrs. Myles Baker, a graying, sympathetic lady, has personally listened, to the problems of twelve thousand couples since Dean Bender established her office in January 1946. "They didn't expect 'Harvard Wives' to last more than two years," she states proudly, "but we were in such demand even after the GI's left, that Harvard couldn't do without...
...decades. Painter Paul Colin had all France for an art gallery. His work appeared on stately buildings and on ruins, on the walls of Paris' Folies-Bergere and in a thousand small-town railway stations...
...diplomacy. This year, national curiosity is even greater. In a year that is politically dull, New York City is the battleground of an election significant enough to have reverberations in national politics clear through to the 1956 Presidential conventions. Because of this, and especially because over a thousand members of this academic community are native to metropolitan New York, it is hardly meddling for this column to endorse a candidate for mayor of New York City...
...thousand yards south of this bustling new community, the 2,500 hutments and 40-odd compounds of Indian Village lay sprawling across barren ridges and hillsides. In the compounds, some 22,500 desperate anti-Communist Chinese and North Korean P.W.s were killing time, giving one another anti-Communist classes and pep talks, chipping makeshift daggers from broken urinals, shouting "Death to Mao the Dog Communist!" for the benefit of passersby...
...cold-water flat. The school system still creaks under the unexpected strain of this new and wrenching load. The financial and legal difficulties involved in condemning property and building new schools are staggering. So is the task of fitting the newcomers into their strange new world. More than a thousand teachers, for instance, have learned Spanish simply to be able to communicate with parents of their new charges and attempt some explanation of what New York-and the U.S.-hopes from them...