Lawrence K. Grossman papers, 1931-2018

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Series I: Early Years/Education



Box 1 PS 152 Glenwood Rd School

The Glenwood Road School PS No 152 Brooklyn Graduation Exercise program Jan 21,1944 — Lawrence Kugelmass listed under boys honors student 85% and over; School autograph book


Box 1 Bar Mitzvah


Publications:


Box 1 The Road Ahead (3)


Box 1 The Formula (5)


Box 1 The Midwood Argus (11)


Box 1 School-age and Midwood high school

Box contains school records, report cards, awards certificates, medals Midwood 1948 yearbook, selected school work, including freedom of the press paper research paper and a letter to LKG on the subject from George Marion (part of LKG's research for the paper); Free Speech in Eighteenth Century America & folder including all prep material for LKG college applications, with notes for essay, letters of recommendations by former NY Board of Ed President and family friend James Marshal, esq. and others, acceptances, etc. Marshall was also the featured speaker for the Midwood High School graduation, introduced by LKG. Annotated graduation programs and school publications also included.


Box 1 Nathan Kugelmass File - City College of NY 1926 Commencement Program Memorabilia, Papers, Supreme Court of the United States October Term, 1931, No. 265 Petitioner's Points booklet L.A. Nixon against James Condon and C.H. Kolle

LKG's father, who died in 1934 at age 28, was a Columbia Law School graduate (class of 29) - and worked in James Marshall's law firm. Kugelmass was "on the Brief" in the U.S. Supreme Court briefs for landmark Texas voting rights case (see also condolence letters to Marshall in Box 34).


Box 1 Columbia

Includes Columbia Daily Spectators 1948-51, various memorabillia, NYTimes Magazine Class of 1952 LKG cover; p 35 and Columbia Board of Visitors materials


Box 1 Cowles/Look Magazine


Box 1 Book Ideas - Escapees from Communist Countries


Box 1 LKG outside CBS pitches, including with Roone Arledge; Masterpiece; Problems in the City

While at Look, LKG was constantly pitching elsewhere. He worked with Roone Arledge on a series titled "Masterpiece," pitching to CBS program head Franklin Schaffner (who rejjected it as "terribly improtant by "terribly special" for commercial tv), as well as a public affairs program, pitched to NBC