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...case of the late Harry Dexter White boiled up in the nation's headlines, touching off the sharpest political controversy since the 1952 elections. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, in a Chicago speech last week, revived the charges that White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and an important policymaker of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, was a spy for Russia. Brownell added a new and serious accusation: President Truman had promoted White after the White House had received two written FBI reports saying that White...
Roger W. Brown, Senior Tutor of the Social Relations Department, explains this decline, the sharpest in recent College history, as part of a national trend. "Immediately following the war," Brown said, "social sciences and especially psychology were on the up-swing. Here at Harvard there was a pioneering spirit in Social Relations, as it was a new field...
...Sharpest counter-polemic came from Jesuit Father Joseph Christie, preaching in London. Answering the archbishop's complaints of aggressive Catholic proselytizing. Father Christie said: "We do not need to seek converts; they are driven to us by Communists and modernist clerics within the [Church of England] itself...
...people in mysteries are there mainly to be killed and these individual performances cannot save an unimaginative story. Even the sharpest, most perceptive acting does not eliminate a need for a new plot, snappy dialogue, and more action; Gently Does It needs a good solid shove from behind...
...sharpest eye specialists plugged away at the problem. Some blamed too early exposure to light; some suspected insufficient vitamins, and a few insisted that an unidentified virus was to blame. Then, in 1951, Dr. Thaddeus S. Szewczyk of East St. Louis, Ill. suggested that careful control of incubator oxygen might control the disease...