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...relative values of tutorial and the lecture system is the central problem raised by the recent CEP recommendations, Robert, G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government said yesterday. In its recommendations to the faculty, the committee stressed the importance of tutorial over lectures...
This petition has been widely circulated among the Faculty, and some of its many signers include Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History; Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government; David E. Owen, professor of History, and John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics...
Also puzzled were Philadelphia newsmen. Why did Walter Annenberg, whose staunchly Republican morning Inquirer has often feuded with McCloskey in the past, want the Democratic morning News (long known to Philadelphians as "The Dirty News")? Why had the Democratic Party's longtime National Treasurer Matt McCloskey capitulated? Though neither the civic-minded Inquirer (circ. 609,350) nor Robert McLean's quietly thorough afternoon Bulletin (circ. 718,007) paid more than cursory attention to the sale, the answers seemed clear enough. Hard-headed Contractor McCloskey, who had pumped some $5,000,000 into the News in his three years...
...room for such a paper." The new management also moved swiftly to cut the payroll, and by week's end had laid off 77 staffers, including 16 newsmen and some 30 truck-drivers. To News employees it was an old story. Just before Christmas last year, Matt McCloskey fired 64 (of 117) editorial staffers...
...drawings loom larger, more and more writer-artists are becoming the big moneymakers of children's books. Holling C. Holling (Seabird, Pagoo) deals with America, past and present, in large, posterlike illustrations and detailed marginal sketches that make a handsome blend of the factual and fanciful. Robert McCloskey (Blueberries for Sal, Time of Wonder) catches the stillness of a Maine morning before a storm, with both his brush and typewriter. Ludwig Bemelmans has won as many adults as children with his Madeline stories and his Paris scenes, which look as if they had been drawn by a somewhat sozzled...