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...second base a speaker's platform slowly revolved, surrounded by banks of flowers and five umbrella-shaded clusters of chairs for notables. For six days, Witness leaders expounded the faith over 192 loudspeakers, drenching every cranny of the stadium with inspirational sound. Most often at the microphone was Nathan Homer Knorr, 56, of Brooklyn, who is third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, official title of this 77-year-old made-in-America sect. With sweeping gestures and stabbing voice, he gave familiar Witness Biblicism some new amplification...
Immediately the Harvard Crimson and members of the Faculty began speculating about Bundy's successor and about President Nathan M. Pusey's new role as Acting Dean. Pusey, however, chose to study the whole administrative structure of the University during the Spring Term and remained quiet about a permanent Dean of the Faculty. Pusey bacame the center of attention even in educational policy decisions and undergraduate affairs formerly handled by his right-hand man since...
After changing storm windows, Nathan C. Foote '62 left a ladder leaning up against the local house where he was working. Later, the house caught fire. When, through Foote's mistake, people on the second floor were able to escape safely, the Boston Record highlighted Foote as a hero...
...just spending a quiet evening reading Horace. I don't quite understand what all this raucous noise is," Harvard President Nathan Pusey told 1,500 students storming the locked gates* of his Harvard Yard home. Exercised by the university's sudden decision-after 325 years-to inscribe Harvard College diplomas in English instead of Latin, the Cambridge classicists were undeterred by Pusey's non-Horatian plea...
...novel's liveliest scenes take place in the office of "the literary dictator of America," cigar-chomping Harry P. Brandt, editor of the American World. In an early scene Brandt speaks to the music critic, Paul Jennings (patterned on George Jean Nathan), "a gourmet and a snob" who wears monogrammed shorts...