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...1950s. It can provide a graphic perspective on this or any other time: Thomas Nast's cartoon of the U.S. contending with inflation might have been inked yesterday instead of in 1876. And the cartoon can provide a time capsule for the historian. New York Times Columnist William V. Shannon offers a sound, if wistful, prophecy when he foresees that "a hundred years from now, Herblock will be read and his cartoons admired by everyone trying to understand these strange times...
...panel discussion with Karen Lindsey, columnist for The Boston Phoenix, and Irving Singer '48, professor of philosophy at MIT and author of "The Goals of Human Sexuality," Rockefeller said that women are always physically and psychologically vulnerable to male oppression in the form of sexual relations which they do not want...
Keyes D. Metcalf, the University librarian when Lippmann made the agreement with Yale, said last year that he had estimated in 1946 that the columnist's papers would require at least a big freight car to be transported. He added that in the two decades since then Lippmann probably accumulated another freight car's worth...
...American etiquette; of injuries suffered in a fall from the window of her Manhattan brownstone. Great-granddaughter of a cousin of the rail baron Cornelius, she was born on Staten Island and began her career writing society columns in a local paper, went on to become a syndicated columnist. Her Complete Book of Etiquette (1952) sold almost 3 million copies, with such advice as where the father of the bride should sit if he and the mother of the bride are divorced. (Beside his new wife in the third pew behind the mother of the bride.) Married four times, Vanderbilt...
Died. Harry Hershfield, 89, perennial master of ceremonies, raconteur, columnist and cartoonist; in Manhattan. Hershfield first exercised his wit as the cartoonist-creator of the Desperate Desmond and Abie the Agent comic strips. In the 1940s he gained a wide following as one of the three gagmen who tried to tell funnier stories than the radio audience of Can You Top This? A leading light on the "rubber chicken circuit" for more than 50 years, Hershfield was famous for such sententiae as: "A conscience cannot prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying...