Register of the Norman Cousins papers
1915 | Born in New Jersey |
1933 | Graduated from Columbia University Teachers College |
1934-1935 | Education Writer, New York Evening Post |
1935-1940 | Served as a book critic, literary editor, and managing editor of Current History magazine |
1940 | Joined the Saturday Review as executive editor |
1942-1971 | Editor-in-Chief, Saturday Review |
1952- | President, United World Federalists |
1943-1945 | Editor and member of editorial board of the United States Office of War Information |
1953 | Author, Who Speaks for Man? |
1957-1963 | Chairman and Founding Member, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) |
1958 | Author, In God We Trust: The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers |
1960 | Author, Dr. Schweitzer of Lambaréné |
1967 | Author, Present Tense: An American Editor's Odyssey |
1971 | Awarded United Nations Peace Medal |
1972 | Founder and Editor, World |
1973-1977 | Returned to the offices of Saturday Review to run a new biweekly magazine, which was combined with World |
1978 | Chairman of the Board of Directors, Saturday Review |
1977- | Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, University of California, Los Angeles |
1979 | Author, Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient |
1981 | Author, Human Options: An Autobiographical Notebook |
1983 | Author, The Healing Heart: Antidotes to Panic and Helplessness |
1985 | Author, Albert Schweitzer's Mission |
1987 | Author, The Pathology of Power |
1989 | Author, Head First: The Biology of Hope |
1990 | Died |
Scope and Content of the Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Awards
Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism 1990
Encyclopedia Britannica Achievement in Life Award 1979
Birthday book 1975
Honorary degrees
American University 1948
George Washington University 1982
Maryville College 1976
New Haven County Medical Association 1984
Occidental College 1982
Interview with Bill Moyers 1985
Interview, Oral History Program, UCLA (continued)
Passports
Treasure albums
A-D
Unidentified letter 1930, 1961
Acheson, Dean 1951, undated
Adams, Sherman 1945-1976
Ali, Mohamed 1953
Biggs, Peggy and E. Power 1971-1973
Bing, Rudolf 1966
Black, Hugo L. 1946-1956
Bracker, Peg 1982
Bradley, Omar N. 1950-1960
Brzezinski, Zbigniew 1975-1977
Bunche, Ralph 1953-1968
Churchill, Winston 1947
Dali, Salvador 1946
Daniels, Johnathan 1945-1947
Davis, Elmer 1947-1952, undated
Dewey, John 1945
Djilas, Milovan 1975
Dobrynin, Anatoly F. 1963, undated
Douglas, William O. 1946-1975
Durant, Will 1957-1977
E-H
Einstein, Albert 1947-1979
Farley, James 1974
Ford II, Henry 1975
Forrestal, James 1945
Frankfurter, Felix 1946
Hand, Learned 1952-1958
Harriman, Averell 1951-1966
Hemingway, Mary 1965-1976
Hull, Cordell 1945
Husain, Zaki 1965
Huxley, Julian 1965
I-O
Keller, Helen 1962
Kennan, George F. 1952-1981
Kerensky, Alexander 1966
Kinsey, Alfred C. 1953-1954
Konig, Cardinal 1983
Landon, Alfred M. 1960-1964
Lindbergh, Charles 1968
Lippmann, Walter 1964-1968
Luce, Henry 1955
McCarthy, Mary 1954
McCloy, John J. 1961-1982
McGovern, George 1975
Mondale, Walter F. 1975
Murrow, Edward R. 1950-1965
Nash, Ogden (poem) 1964
Oppenheimer, Robert 1963
P-S
Patton, George S. 1976
Pauling, Linus 1958
Pike, James A. 1966
Pire, P. Dominique 1963
Radhakrishnan, S. 1967
Richards, I.A. 1967
Rockefeller, Nelson 1967
Rockefeller, Peggy and David undated
Rockwell, Norman 1947
Russell, Bertrand 1955-1977
Saroyan, William 1962
Sellassie, Haile 1957-1963, undated
Sherwood, Robert E. 1947
Shultz, George P. 1975
Snow, C. P. 1975
Spaak, Paul Henri 1956
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays 1947-1963
Sulzberger, C. L. 1975
T-Z
Toynbee, Arnold 1958-1964
Waldheim, Kurt 1973-1981
Welles, Sumner 1946-1947
West, Rebecca 1949
Saturday Review founders
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish 1955
Biddle, Katherine 1954
Brown, John Mason 1953-1955
Deutsch, Babette 1943-1954
De Voto, Bernard 1941-1954
Eastman, Max 1954
Fadiman, Clifton 1949
Hasting, Fanny de Groot 1949
Jeffers, Robinson 1935
Lerner, Max 1950-1954
Lippincott, Joseph W. 1945
MacLeish, Archibald 1942-1944
Marquand, John P. 1942-1949
Michener, James A. 1941-1943
Montague, Ashley 1955
Mumford, Lewis 1953
Nevins, Allan 1953
Overstreet, Harry A. 1949
Stuart, Jesse 1954
Untermeyer, Louis 1954
Van Doren, Mark 1953
Viereck, Peter 1952-1954
Wilson, Sloan 1954-1955
Wouk, Herman 1954-1955
Wyeth, Andrew 1941-1943
Presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower
Roosevelt, Eleanor 1944-1962
Roosevelt, James 1960
Halsted, Anna Roosevelt H. 1962
Truman, Harry S. 1952-1971
Truman, Bess 1975
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1956-1966
Eisenhower, Mamie Doud 1964
Presidents, John F. Kennedy and family
Kennedy, John F. 1962-1983
Kennedy, Jacqueline 1965-1967
Kennedy, Joseph P. 1974
Kennedy, Robert F. 1967
Kennedy, Edward M. 1966-1990
Presidents, Lyndon B. Johnson to Ronald Reagan
Johnson, Lyndon B. 1945-1968
Nixon, Richard M. 1955-1978
Ford, Gerald R. 1971-1986
Carter, Jimmy 1979-1981
Reagan, Ronald 1982-1990
Presidents, George Bush and family
Bush, George 1973-1989
Bush, Barbara 1989
Albert Schweitzer 1955-1963
Adlai E. Stevenson and U. Thant
Stevenson, Adlai E. 1952-1978
Thant, U. 1963-1975
Hubert H. Humphrey 1958-1976
Nehru and Gandhi
Nehru, Jawaharlal 1953-1964
Gandhi, Indira 1955-1984
Gandhi, Rajiv 1984
General 1965-1988
Condolences 1990-1991
SANE 1958-1961
General undated
General circa 1986
Conversation with Nasrolla Fatemi regarding Truman and the atomic bomb 1969
Editorials and books undated
Healing system 1980
Pathology undated
Unidentified annotated typescript, chapters 1 to 3 undated
Bibliographies and audio inventories
Editorials undated
Play script, fragment undated
"Are We Sorcerer's Apprentices or Are We Men?" undated
"The Legacy of John F. Kennedy" undated
The Papa of Passy: A Play in Two Acts undated
Editorials 1940-1964
"The Family of Man: A Prayer" 1943
"Literature Between Two Wars" 1944
"Don't Resign From the Human Race" 1948
"Tell the Folk Back Home," speech, Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace 1949
Speech, Conference for World Peace 1949
"In Defense of a Writing Career" 1950
"The Election: Must It Be All or Nothing" circa 1952
"An Exclusive Dispatch to This Newspaper," press release 1953
"Litany for Modern Man" 1953-1954
"The Truth About Our Books Abroad" 1953
Who Speaks For Man?, monograph signed by Cousins 1953
"The Great Debate in American Education" 1954
Speech excerpt on boredom, International Conference of Social Work, press release 1954
"Does Anyone Have Time to Think" 1955
"Job Open" 1955
Open letter to Val Peterson 1955
"Think of a Man" 1956
"People Still Make the Book" 1957
"The Schweitzer Declaration" 1957
"Dr. Teller and the Spirit of Adventure" 1958
"Neither Suicide nor Surrender" 1958
"Ravensbrueck 'Lapins' Arrive in America to Receive Medical Treatment," press release 1958
"Wanted: Two Billion Angry Men" 1958
Speech, Colgate University Library 1959
Speech, Soviet Peace Committee 1959
"CRB vs. Man" 1960
Response to "What's Wrong with America" by Kenneth Tyman, press release 1960
"Shelters, Survival, and Common Sense" 1961
Speech excerpts, Cooper Union 1960
"Can Cultures Coexist?" 1962
"In Defense of the Genuine Conservative" and "In Defense of the Genuine Liberal" 1962
SANE press release 1963
Editorials, printed copies 1968-1969
"Anatomy of an Illness," article 1976
Medical articles, printed copies 1976-1988
Envoy to the Middle World, page proofs 1983
The Trial of Dr. Mesmer, play 1983
Script, Dr. Mesner and Dr. Franklin: A Play in Three Acts undated
"Think of a Man" 1983
Albert Schweitzer's Mission, monograph 1985
Head First 1988-1989
Annotated typescript 1988
Chapter 19 1988-1989
Anatomy of an Illness, script 1989
Subject File
General
Alphabetical file 1955-1990
Alphabetical file (continued)
Answer, magazine 1936
Cartoon 1942
Conferences
Dartmouth Conference 1964
Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference 1989-1990
Soviet-American Writers Conference circa 1977
Current History Project undated
Editorial/LA Times ideas 1975, undated
Fedorenko, Nickolai 1980-1986
Fedorenko, Nickolai (continued)
Finck, Norman 1985-1988
Hearing, "Fallout From Nuclear Weapons Test" 1959
Les livres des fleurs, correspondence and printed copy 1935, undated
Medal of Honor, pamphlet undated
Nwanko Ifejika Company 1970
Note 1982
Printed copy 1965
Russian translation signed by Krushchev 1963
Playbill:The National Magazine for Theatergoers undated
Printed matter 1939-1989
Russian fable inscribed by John F. Kennedy 1961
SANE 1958, undated
Signatures 1991
Stamps undated
Stationery undated
UCLA, report on program in psychoneuroimmunology 1989
Writings by others
Baumann, Peter undated
Bohme, F. 1980
Young, Robert R. undated
The World of Albert Schweitzer, printed copy 1955
Writings
"Friede oder Atomkrieg," typescript 1958, undated
"An Obligation to Tomorrow," printed copy 1958
"Statement by Albert Schweitzer with Reference to the Present Nuclear Crisis in the World" undated
Post-Atomic Japan File
General 1947-1949, 1971
General (continued)
After the war 1975-1986
Book and Library Program, International Information Administration, Department of State 1953, undated
Civil liberties 1948
Hiroshima maidens undated
Niwano Peace Foundation 1988-1990
Printed matter
Education in New Japan 1948
Living Hiroshima 1948
The Old Japanese Humor 1949
"Statistical Materials Relating to Japanese Women" 1951
Newspapers 1953
The New Yorker 1953
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission reports 1959-1962
Trip to Japan 1949
Visiting cards and notes undated
Saturday Review File
General 1973-1987
Administrative file 1978-1981
Advertisement and clippings 1965-1966, undated
Cartoon 1948
"Closing book," sale to Tucker 1977
Legal documents, sale to McCall Corporation 1963-1968
Letters to J. R. Comisky on twentieth anniversary at Saturday Review 1962
Photograph of office undated
Printed copies of magazine 1957
World Magazine File
Balance sheet 1973
Circulars 1972-1973
First issue, printed copy 1972
Audiovisual Material
Sound recordings
Sound discs
Sound tape reels
Compact sound cassettes
"Health is How We Live Our Lives," conference, 6 cassettes 1985
"Norman Cousins Mini Close Up" undated
"Norman Cousins' Talk at the Kollar Center" 1983 April
"Norman Cousins, Humor Seminar," First Congregational Church of Los Angeles undated
UCLA Doctoral Alumni Association 1983 March
"Norman Cousins, Talk at NPI" 1982 April
"Anatomy of an Illness," psychoneuroimmunology seminar undated
Videorecordings
Betacam
"Radio Bikini: Interviews With Men Who Received Radiation Burns from the Bikini Test," pilot 1985 March
"Norman Counsins, MacNeil Lether Report" undated
"ABC News Special, JFK" 1983 December
VHS
"Norman Cousins Lecture" undated
"MacNeil Lehrer News Hour" 1990 September
"Rollo May Tribute Luncheon" 1990 May
"Norman Cousins: A Profile," KCET 1991 February
"Faces of the Enemy" 1987 May
"Preventing Nuclear War: The First Essential Step," Center for Defense Information undated
"The Meaning of Health: A Dialogue with Bill Moyers," Fetzer Institute undated
Motion picture
"Dr. Fisk," 16mm color motion picture film
"MH-10278-B Unclassified," 16mm motion picture film
18 untitled short films, 16mm motion picture film reels
Small prints
Beverly Hilton Hotel World Federalist Association undated
Hiroshima
Japanese material, natural resources
Large prints
Bikini atomic bomb 1946
China
Ethiopian pictures
Event at Waldorf Astoria
Japanese material, night club
Meetings of writers, American and Russian
Nehru and Cousins, India
Pope
Portraits
Stevenson, A.
University of Santa Clara commencement
University of Santa Clara commencement (continued)
UCLA
Clark, Grenvile
Norman Cousins travel pictures
Norman Cousins travel pictures (continued)
White, Margaret Brook
Zsilard, Leo
Photographs not yet described
Schweitzer hospital
Photographic prints of documents
Correspondence 1961
Journal 1955-1962
Unidentified manuscript undated
The Kingdom of God, manuscript
Negatives
Negatives
Certificate, Distinguished Public Service Award of the Connecticut Bar Association 1965
"NCLE," photo album
Certificate, Niwano Peace Foundation 1990
Test Ban Treaty 1963
Flintstones cartoon inscribed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera undated
Sketch, "Albert Schweitzer at Eight Six" 1989
Photograph of Cousins and Albert Schweitzer undated
Certificate, SGI Peace and Culture Award
Scrapbook, US-USSR Dartmouth Conference 1961