Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, made the official University position clear when he stated that the Attorney General's action would "in no way affect" the Faculty position on American Youth for Democracy, one of the 71 organizations and 11 schools challenged by the government...
...organization, he declared, was interested in defending the rights of minorities preserving "non-imperialistic" international peace, and fighting for the status of youth, "particularly in educational matters...
...discussing the decision, Dean Watson declared that as far as he was concerned the removal of the Harvard connection took the publication out of his jurisdiction. The first issue of the controversial magazine is being put out by the national American Youth for Democracy organization...
...comics had become a maker & breaker of publishing empires. The New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
Traditional paternal advice to the youth about to embark on a collegiate career include two subjects, and one of these is invariably gambling. On their relative complexity, Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son in an unpublished gem: "The diversion of the chase is considerably easier to master, my boy, than the intricacies of chance...