Word: whitman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office at 2:30, only to find that it was overrun by radio and television technicians setting up for the speech that night. He took his note pad and a handful of pencils into the Cabinet Room and sat alone at the huge Cabinet table. Occasionally Ann Whitman, his personal secretary, went in for dictation of a few paragraphs. Speechwriter Kevin McCann, Aides Adams and Persons and News Secretary James Hagerty moved in and out, but essentially it was the President's own message in his own words. He read the speech aloud three times, timing himself...
...Walt Whitman and Camden bridge dispute [Feb. 6]: in dedicating the bridge to Walt Whitman, the officials concerned are honoring Whitman as a poet, not just Whitman the man. I am a Catholic and like Whitman, whatever his sexual leanings; he was a better poet than Joyce Kilmer any day. They can take Trees and throw it away and/or build their own bridge. They just don't understand Whitman or his poetry. As for the man, they might remember that during the Civil War he did as much as any man to visit, comfort and help the sick...
Karen Anaide Goukassow '57 of Whitman Hall and New York City will be the next president of the Radcliffe Student Government Association, Diane C. Kim '58, SGA secretary, announced last night. She will take office at the SGA's next meeting, on March...
Sally Cameron '57 of Whitman Hall and San Francisco has been elected manager of the Radcliffe Choral Society to replace Laurie Gorfinkle '56. The group also chose Marcia Heintzleman '58 of Cabot Hall as assistant manager...
...budgets, the smallest audiences. That is what happened for more than two years to Robert Herridge, 38, producer of CBS's Camera Three. His 30-minute show has intellectual substance and imaginative flair, and has ranged from studies of Biblical man to verbal and pictorial experiments with Walt Whitman's poetry. But the program was confined to one local Manhattan station (WCBS), was televised on Saturdays at 2 p.m., reached a maximum audience of only 500,000, and had a production budget of $1,600 per show (about one-fifth the cost of an average three-minute commercial...