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Fri., Jan. 6 Playhouse (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Some thing called Amateur Mother kicks off a new situation-comedy series with Wendell Corey and Nanette Fabray.
Died. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, 96, biographer, historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's...
(6 of 10) conception of natural law as merely "the drive of the whole personality," the striving to "live ever more fully." Calling itself "modern evolutionary scientific humanism," it regards human values such as reason, justice and charity as man-made and human rights as dependent on man for their...
The 96-year-old "Dean of New England letters" had written six volumes of verse and ten other books, including a prize winning biography of Barret Wendell '01. He was awarded a Doctor of Letters degree from the University in 1954, and served on the Board of Overseers.
His first book, a collection of verse, was published about 1895, and his final volume 60 years later. Many of his works were biographies, including ones of Wendell, John Jay Chapman, Fredeick Pickering Cabot, James Ford Rhodes, and himself.