Word: w
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general sessions to be held at the Business School, other phases of high school administrative and educational problems will be discussed by such speakers as Lester W. Nelson, treasurer of The Fund for the Advancement of Education, Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions at Harvard College, and Matthew P. Gaffney, Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education...
...entire Boston Arts Center is the result of the vision and collaboration of four enterprising men: Perry T. Rathbone '33, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts; William Morris Hunt '36, Executive Producer of the Cambridge Drama Festival; Nelson W. Aldrich '34, Chairman of the Board, Boston Arts Festival: and Jerome M. Rosenfeld, President of Jerome Press Publications...
...immediate beneficiaries: 1) William G. Barr, named to head the Office of Rent Stabilization in 1953, and sued for telling the press that his "first official act" would be to suspend two employees who had been mixed up in a manipula: tion of ORS funds; and 2) Admiral W. E. Howard Jr., who, as commanding officer of the Boston Naval Shipyard, reported to Congressmen-with copies to the press -that the shipyard would soon withdraw recognition of a union, and was sued by the union...
...midst of all the glad-handing in the supermarkets, the other face of Russia came through clear and cold last week from Moscow. It was the face of Nikita Khrushchev, confident, truculent, uncompromising, as he told W. Averell Harriman, U.S. wartime Ambassador to Russia, what he thought of things in a tone that Harriman-were he still ambassador-would have had to protest...
...last winter, 44-year-old Aircraft Mechanic Vernon W. Hansen of Strathmore, Calif. (100 miles north of Los Angeles) lay frightened on his hospital bed. He had told doctors that if left alone he could stop his heartbeat. Although he had done it in the past, Hansen feared that he might not be able to "will" his heart back to working. He turned on an electrocardiograph, then, "simply by allowing everything to stop," silenced his heartbeat for five seconds. After a deep breath, he was back to normal. Last week, writing in California Medicine, Dr. Charles M. McClure of Lindsay...