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Smart TalkSMART TALK by Dr. Clara Dix
ADDRESS: Alfred Kahn is one of our heroes. A longtime board member for the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, he served as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under President Carter. While there, he made waves trying to get bureaucrats to speak English as if it were their first language.
Many of Dr. Kahn's memos to staff now reside here at the Institute. We recently moved the archive from Warriner House to its permanent home in the Alfred Kahn Clinic, where we built a proper research library. Part of one memo reads:
"Some of you would...have all the people in the world do nothing but address things. How about handle, deal with, confront, treat, analyze, discuss, consider, solve... Try to think of others - you'll like it. I would not object if you confined your addressing in the future to envelopes, audiences and golf balls."
Who could wonder why we named a building after this man?
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