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...WALL and PER WAHL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Martin Beck Passes | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

Died. Jean Wahl, 86, lyrical, charmingly disorganized French existentialist philosopher and Sorbonne professor who once flunked a graduate student named Jean-Paul Sartre, later introduced him to Martin Heidegger, and set down his own view of philosophy as "a search for knowledge . . . that is not necessarily reducible to intellectual understanding" in a dense opus entitled The Philosopher's Way; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 1, 1974 | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...fellowships were established through a bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman in memory of her husband, Lucius W. Nieman, founder of The Milwaukee Journal...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: 13 Nieman Fellows for '74-75 Include Four Female, Two Black Journalists | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...last thing James Bryant Conant wanted at Harvard was a school of journalism. A chemist at heart, Conant wrote his speeches in a manner designed to keep a reporter from finding any headlines in it. Consequently, the windfall bequest left to Harvard in 1936 by Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of The Milwaukee Journal, came as a complete surprise to Harvard's President...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: Stop the Presses | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...Nieman's contribution to journalism is not necessarily measurable in terms of titles and positions, Pinkerton says. In fact it is difficult to measure the cumulative impact of the Nieman program on the profession. Harvard responded to Agnes Wahl Nieman's directive to elevate the standards of journalism by offering a unique prescription and letting the journalists do the rest...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: Stop the Presses | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

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