Word: graubard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without an instrument; the footman becomes one of those stereotyped Mexicans, all sombrero and somnolence; and so on. Joel Crothers, Joel Henning, and Al Graubard, respectively, play these roles, and Caroline Cross is the heroine. What they lack in finesse (a good deal, for some of them), they make up with luck in being associated with a generally good thing...
...loading sixteen tons, or what's on top of Old Smoky, English 195, Folksong and Balladry, in Emerson A, is just the thing. And if English thought from Burke to Mill happens to be the lone weak spot in your arsenal of knowledge, take History 143 with assistant professor Graubard in Harvard...
...Stephen Graubard of the Committee on General Education said that although the case had not yet arisen, he would say "offhand, no" that independent study out of field could count toward distribution credit...
...January, 1920, when British pressure caused the Supreme Council to end the Russian blockade and initiate trade through the Russian co-operative societies. The British co-operatives, with their close ties to the Labour movement, played a not-inconsiderable part in the formation of this policy, yet Mr. Graubard does not even mention these events. And when Lloyd George appointed James O'Grady, a Labour M.P. and trade union official, to carry on prolonged negotiations with Litvinov for an exchange of prisoners, what effect did O'Grady's participation have on Labour thinking towards Russia...
...pity that Mr. Graubard did not find time to consult the diplomatic record; another dimension would have been added to his admirable study, and its usefulness in illuminating a too-little-known part of Labour's history would have been considerably increased...