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16 picks · 1933–1963

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Our Invisible Poor
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BOOKS review of Michael Harrington’s “The Other America.”

FOUNDATION: NEXT WINTER OR BY PLANE
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PROFILE of the Ford Foundation dealing with the Hutchins regime. Hutchins was a headace to the Foundation. The modern foundation official should be …

FOUNDATION: THE PHILANTHROPOIDS Part III
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PROFILE of the Ford Foundation, headquarters at 477 Madison Avenue. The article deals with the Foundation's personnel, officers, disbursements of …

FOUNDATION: HOW TO SPEND HENRY'S MONEY II
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PROFILE of the Ford Foundation. A grant was made by their Behavorial Sciences Program to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavorial Sciences, at Palo …

Action on West Fifty-Third Street.
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PROFILE of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., director of Collections of the Museum of Modern Art. An excellent example of Barr's showmanship was the exploitation of…

ACTION ON WEST FIFTY-THIRD STREET.
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PROFILE of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., director of collections of the Museum of Modern Art, comments on the Metropolitan Museum's small collection of modern …

CIT
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PROFILE of George Hervey Hallett, Jr., executive secretary of the Citizens Union. The sort of thing the Union keeps an eye on was the 1952 Board of …

THE DEFENSE OF EVERYBODY
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PROFILE of Roger Baldwin, who was director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1920 to 1950. The Union's most celebrated case in the twenties, &…

IN DEFENSE OF EVERYBODY
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PROFILE of Roger Baldwin, founder of the Amer. Civil Liberties Union, Although a man of socialist leanings, he has never voted for his old friend Norman …

THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD.
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PROFILE of Dorothy Day, who with Peter Maurin, an itinerant preacher, described as "apostle on the bum," who advocated "a Utopian Christian communism," …

White Sales and Aristotle.
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PROFILE of Richard Weil, Jr., president of R.H. Macy's N.Y. store. One of his closest friends is Mortimer J. Adle r, the metaphysician, whose "How To …

Army Man At Work-II
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PROFILE of Colonel Brehon B. Somerwell, W.P.A. Administrator. Mr. Ridder, philanthropist, and publisher of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung went into office …

Neanderthal
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Profile of Leonor F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. He is Harriman's private heir as a manipulator of railroad systems. …