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Died. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, 96, biographer, historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's career as an editor (Youth's Companion, Atlantic Monthly), he became an author, wrote 38 volumes in longhand (including a 1924 Pulitzer Prize biography, Barrett Wendell and his Letters), but maintained nonetheless that his "best products" were his children: onetime Monologist and Novelist Helen, Harvard Law Professor Mark...
...Howe received A.B.'s from Lehigh in 1886 and from the College in 1887. In his varied writing career, he worked as assistant editor of the Atlantic, associate editor of Youth's Companion, editor of the Alumni Bulletin, and editor of the Graduate Magazine...
Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, Sr. '87, a Pulitzer Prize winner and father of Law School professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, died at his son's home Tuesday night...
Percival S. Howe, Jr. '17, Chairman of the Board the American Thread Company noted: "More than thing else it taught me the importance of getting this done by the use of persuasion, rather than by the of authority. Next to two years at Harvard Business School I consider a Crew Managership the best training for a business career...
...mayor bridged the gap between civic servant and foreign policy-conscious candidate through meetings with Harvard professors who supported his candidacy from the start. Samuel H. Beer and Mark DeWolfe Howe apparently saw in O'Connor the makings of a good liberal senator and embraced his cause before the primary. They, and others with ADA leanings, also helped advise him on policy during the heat of the campaign. From them O'Connor picked up facts and opinion that he later combined into his appeal that "everything is not rosy" and that "we must get this country-moving again...