Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their battle to remove the name of "homoerotic" Poet Walt (Leaves of Grass) Whitman from the bridge linking Philadelphia with Camden, N.J. (TIME, Dec. 26), Roman Catholic groups in the Camden area rallied around a new nomination. Their candidate to succeed Whitman: another famed New Jersey versemaker, Doughboy-Poet-Family Man Joyce (Trees) Kilmer, a Roman Catholic convert, killed at 32 in World War I and, in the view of one champion, "representative of American traditions, American family life and American soldiery...
Various alumni are serving as hosts during the trip, including airplane manufacturer Robert Gross '19, railroad president Frederic B. Whitman '19, and department store executive Stanley Marcus...
...clock on a miserable, sleeting Washington morning last week, a telephone alert went out through the White House. Presidential Secretary Ann Whitman glanced around her desk to make certain everything was ready; ushers and doormen snapped to attention. Down in an elevator from his living quarters, out through a rear door and across the Rose Garden to his office in the west wing came Dwight Eisenhower. The President of the U.S. was working back into a full-time schedule-and hardly had he sat down at his desk than the babble of speculation about his political intentions grew even louder...
Cell at the Trib. Other witnesses were less cooperative. Alden Whitman, 42, a Times copyreader since 1951, admitted having been a Communist from 1935 through 1948, but refused to name any other party members. After tough questioning, Counsel Sourwine pried out of him the admission that he had belonged to a Communist cell with "perhaps a half-dozen members" on the New York Herald Tribune while working there as a copyreader from 1943 to 1951. The Trib, which had been giving the hearings the splashiest play in town, grabbed Sourwine right after the session and later quoted him: "We have...
Seymour Peck, 38, a desk man on the Times Sunday Magazine who joined the paper in 1952, also fought shy of naming onetime Communist associates, while he admitted his own party membership from 1935 to 1949. Like Whitman, he did not claim the refuge of the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against selfincrimination. Peck, a onetime staffer of the now defunct Communist-line New York Compass, simply refused to answer, despite the subcommittee's repeated warnings that he was risking a contempt citation...