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President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, December 1, from four to six p.m., and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
Professorial Prestige. Speaking in San Francisco for Harvard College's $82.5 million fund-raising campaign, President Nathan Pusey highlighted some figures that should give Americans pause: while the average salary of the American college teacher is $5,400, "in Russia the basic professor's salary is $18,000, and the top professors earn $35,000 to $50,000." U.S. experts do not know exactly how many professors earn such salaries, but the figures provide startling evidence of the high prestige that teachers enjoy in Soviet society...
Included among the signers of the statement were authors Cleveland Amory '39, John Hersey, James Jones, and Lewis Mumford. Robert B. Nathan, national ADA chairman, and Norman Thomas, former Socialist nominee for President, were also on the list...
...performance of the evening was turned in by James Matisoff as Sir Epicure Mammon; he creeps about the stage, delivering his passionate outbursts, alternately joyful and despondent, and always excellent. He was ably supported by Nathan Douthit--with amazing grimaces and thunderous orations, and Carl Morgan--the stomach-stroking pastor with a thirst for gold...
...Moscow première was performed by the Soviet State Symphony Orchestra, under Conductor Nathan Rakhlin, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, which was packed with 3,000 people. The four movements were played without a break. None of the music came as a surprise to Soviet bigwigs in the audience. It had had its world première shortly before in Leningrad, and just to be absolutely sure everything sounded the way it ought to, Composer Shostakovich had previewed the symphony on the piano for a picked group of Moscow's upper-echelon music lovers...