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Seven years ago, Martin Myerson, the then director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, received a letter from the City Manager of Cambridge, John Curry '19, asking for ideas "to make the town move forward." Myerson's answer was simple and provocative. He put forward plans for a "private development corporation" which would take advantage of industry and the universities -- the huge resources the Cambridge community had never before really tapped...
...idea for a private development corporation was new itself, but the idea of involving the universities and industry in the community was an even more daring concept. Myerson wanted the corporation to be "small in size, but extraordinary in skill." Run by a president and secretary, it would depend on the universities for guidance on special projects...
...seed money would come from a revolving fund of $1 million, of which Harvard and M.I.T. pledged to contribute half. The remaining $500,000 would be put up by business and industry in Cambridge. The Corporation, as in Myerson's original scheme, would rarely give money away. Rather it would be a source from which money could be borrowed quickly with a minimum of red tape...
THANKSGIVING DAY PARADES (CBS, 10 a.m. to noon). Arthur Godfrey (in Toronto), Bess Myerson and Mike Douglas (New York), Jack Linkletter and Marilyn Van Derbur (Philadelphia) and Fran Allison (Detroit) give curbside comment on a medley of parades...
...career," he said, "that unless we had somebody of another faith on the show, it wouldn't go on." Thus it was no accident that at various times Funt shared M.C. duties with Arthur Godfrey and Durward Kirby. Ironically, his current co-host is onetime Beauty Queen Bess Myerson-who is Jewish...