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Getaway Plans. Defying the odds, a few American companies continue to operate in Saigon. Among them: San Francisco-based Foremost-McKesson, which runs the capital's only dairy. Foremost will keep the plant running, said President William Morison, "as long as whatever government they have there allows us to." Chase's branch manager returned to Saigon, at least temporarily, after embassy officials promised that he and other bank employees would have equal priority with government personnel if and when it came time to run. Pan American last week managed to operate two scheduled flights into Saigon, even though...
Probably the first thing anybody should know about the history of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is that there isn't any history. The official history of Harvard by Samuel Eliot Morison doesn't contain a single word about the lectureship. That's because it was founded too recently, in 1926, and for Harvard any event in the twentieth century isn't distant enough to be historical. Even E.J. Kahn's popular work, Harvard, Through Change and Through Storm, fails to mention the Norton lectures. And the Harvard archives doesn't contain a great deal of material...
...book is preposterous," says Harvard's venerable historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, who sailed the area himself before writing his Pulitzer-prize-winning biography of Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea. Admiral Morison takes issue particularly with reports in Triangle attributed to Columbus. "It's almost all hooey. Columbus never reported seeing white water in the area. None of the early navigators made any complaints about it. The whole Spanish Main went through it." Says University of Miami Oceanographer Claes Rooth: "If there ever was a pseudo topic, it's the Bermuda triangle." Rooth attributes many...
...Charles William Eliot, and no climate could have been better for fostering such an undertaking. John Finley has suggested that the rise of the Sophist came about because of the need of Athens for expositors of the new imperial civilization, and it is not by accident that Samuel Eliot Morison has referred to Charles William Eliot as "The enlarger of the empire." Eliot's new intellectual empire, as it brought together under the banner of "Veritas" the best and most progressive scholars, students and thinkers in the world, needed expositors, instruments to bring the gospel of the new education...
...Harvard Journal gave The Crimson the only tough fight in its history. One Journalist threw down the gauntlet in a defiant note to Crimson President J.H. Morison...