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...insulted by the citizens of his city, and threatened by a nightly barrage of anonymous hate calls. He has calmly gone on running the embattled schools of New Orleans (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) without state funds. This month he himself has not been paid. But when some New Orleans parents last week started a "dollars for Redmond" drive to pay his salary and raised $175 by noon the first day, he asked them to stop...
Redmond put together a tight organization, built 34 new schools, devised a system for constantly revising the curriculum. Against hot opposition, he started the Benjamin Franklin High School for bright youngsters, which graduated its first class last year ("It was in orbit before Sputnik"). His proudest memory of the first day of integration three weeks ago, when truancy was rife, is that "my Franklin kids stuck with...
Maybe Out. Last year a management consultant's report expressed amazement that New Orleans could keep a man of Redmond's ability for the salary it paid him ($23,500). Kansas-born, Roman Catholic Jim Redmond has been a rising light in U.S. public education since 1940, when he became assistant to Kansas City Superintendent Herold Hunt, who later moved to Chicago, taking Redmond with him. Both men won renown for cleaning up Chicago's graft-ridden public schools. When Hunt became an education professor at Harvard in 1953, Redmond went to New Orleans...
...advanced industrial society, however democratic, a "handful of men in secret" make the choices that "determine in the crudest sense whether we live or die." So argued English Novelist Sir Charles Percy Snow last week as he delivered Harvard University's prestigious Godkin Lectures on public affairs.* Snow's plea was for more scientists in government, thus minimizing the role of hunch and political intuition...
...became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics (The New Men, The Masters, The Affair); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor. To illustrate his point, he said last week, "The best I can do is tell a story...