The Spirit Was There--Attempting to satisfy some five and a half million news-hungry metropolitan New Yorkers with 5,000 copies of a university undergraduate newspaper will not work out, either physically or arithmetically. However, the spirit was there when editors of the Harvard University Crimson flew here today from Cambridge, Mass., with 5,000 copies of their paper. Here, managing editor George S. Abrams, left center, holds up copies distributing them in the Rockefeller Center area. Extreme right, helping Abrams is Milton Gwirtzman of Rochester, N.Y., Gwirtzman is editorial chairman of the paper.
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The Spirit Was There--Attempting to satisfy some five and a half million news-hungry metropolitan New Yorkers with 5,000 copies of a university undergraduate newspaper will not work out, either physically or arithmetically. However, the spirit was there when editors of the Harvard University Crimson flew here today from Cambridge, Mass., with 5,000 copies of their paper. Here, managing editor George S. Abrams, left center, holds up copies distributing them in the Rockefeller Center area. Extreme right, helping Abrams is Milton Gwirtzman of Rochester, N.Y., Gwirtzman is editorial chairman of the paper.

Associated Press · [ca. December 1953]

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