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...presented with a paperback called The Press, by A.J. Liebling, and I am still depressed by books about newspapers. This latest entry into the field isn't even a book; it is merely a collection of Liebling's "Wayward Press" articles from the New Yorker. There is nothing particularly edifying about 284 pages of ancient New Yorker articles laid end to end, and Liebling's "book," by resuscitating old failures, contributes little toward a solution to the problems of the American press...
Harvard's firm administrative control over unrestricted funds has more to do with her greatness, in my judgment, than any other aspect of her constitutional tradition except the freedom of her faculty, her students and her wayward press. The Corporation and the Administration may be right or wrong, but they can never be irresponsible. No other final judgement than theirs must govern the distribution of unrestricted funds, and one element in this judgment must always be the availability of other money. The basic Harvard document on this point fittingly bears the signature of the late Learned Hand...
...Wayward Jets. The West was ready with its own countermeasures. The U.S. Air Force supplied navigational gadgets to help foil the jammers, and airline pilots were going through courses last week to learn their use; already the equipment was being installed by Pan Am on the DC-6Bs it employs on the Berlin run. Plans were being discussed to slap restrictions on planes of Communist airlines on Western routes if trouble comes. And there was another way to combat obstruction of the airlanes: armed fighter escorts to fly alongside the commercial aircraft, ready to defend them with gunfire if necessary...
...bench. Judge Hand was a formidable figure, a stocky man with the broad shoulders of his Kentish forebears, glittering eyes under dense brows, and craggy features that might have been carved by Gutzon Berglum. Intolerant of lawyers who strayed from the point or became too verbose. Judge Hand sent wayward attorneys scampering back to the facts with an acid query-"May I inquire, sir, what are you trying to tell us?"-or just a furious "Rubbish!"' Once, confronting the ferocious old judge at a Yale Law School moot court, a terrified student fainted dead away...
...Platform. A two-mile-long, cigar-shaped strip in the East River, north of the U.N., between Long Island and Manhattan, Welfare Island was once a penitentiary, now is occupied by nurses' homes, hospitals for the aged and poor, and homes for wayward girls. Apart from the institutions, the island is a ramshackle glob of decrepit buildings, weeds and trash. The plan, sponsored by wealthy Real Estate Operator Roger L. Stevens and Financier Frederick Richmond, is to tear down everything on the island except one hospital and to build a concrete platform, 22 feet high, over most...