Gay Humphrey Matthaei and Francis B. Randall Collection of Photographs, Films, and Clippings, 1954-2010

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Series II: Scrapbook

The contents of one scrap book (scrap book itself not retained)



Box 1 Folder 1 Two xerox copies of the article "They let us talk to the Russians," a conversation between Gay Humphrey, Ted Curran, and Ladies' Home Journal editors Laura Lou Brookman and Peter Briggs. In:LHJ, June 1955 pp. 5-51, 147, 149-154., June 1955


Box 1 Folder 2 Francis B. Randall "Four Holes in the Iron Curtain,"Amherst Alumni News, January 1955 pp. 2-5., January 1955


Box 1 Folder 3 Clipping from theColgate Maroon, dated January 12, 1955 and a TNS from Colgate professor Albert Parry dated January 15. 1955 concerning a lecture by Gay Humphrey and Ted Curran on campus., January 12, 1955, 1955


Box 1 Folder 4 TLS dated March23, 1955 from Irving Mickey, Dir. Of Publicity, Union College, accompanied by a News Release to theSchenectady Union Star, thanking Gay Humphrey for her presentation on March22, 1955., March23, 1955


Box 1 Folder 5 Newspaper clipping, with photo of Gay Humphrey and Ted Curran, John G. Rogers, "Ivan is Friendly but Opinionated,"New York Herald Tribune, September 14, 1954 p. 25., September 14, 1954


Box 1 Folder 6 Newspaper clipping (2 copies of original) Harrison Salisbury, "4 Columbia Students Tour Soviet,"NYT, August 25, 1954.


Box 1 Folder 7 Reproduction of article: "Humphrey and Curran Lecture on '6,000 Miles Through Russia,"Vassar Miscellany News, vol. XXXIX, no. 15, February16, 1955.


Box 1 Folder 8 Reproduction of article: Jan Johnson, "Students Tell Of USSR Tour,"Daily Illini, February21, 1956.


Box 1 Folder 9 "Visit to U.S. Might Correct Russ View, Say Pair After Soviet Trip,"Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1954 p. 7., September 15, 1954


Box 1 Folder 10 Finding aid of "Robert Thedore Curran papers 1". Georgetown Univ. Manuscripts.


Box 1 Folder 11 Excerpt from Jeri Laber's The Courage of Strangers (New York: Public Affairs, 2002). Pp. 35-45. Concerns the events leading up to, during, and after the trip.


Box 1 Folder 12 Obituary of Gay Humphrey Matthaei NYT, January 31, 2010.


Box 1 Folder 13 Engagement announcement, Gay Humphrey and Konrad Henry Matthaei, NYT, September 19, 1956.