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Kirk Bryan, professor of Physiography, will conduct a symposium on geomorphology at the annual convention of the Association of American Geographers on April 6 The symposium, to be held at Clark University, will honor the 100th birthday of the founder of the Association, William M. Davis '69, late Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology...
...band of 522 Holy Year pilgrims early this month, Cardinal Spellman was heard to exclaim: "Long live the Pope, long live Rome, and long live the American Express Com pany!" The cheer was gratefully received by American Express, which has already enjoyed a long life: it celebrated its 100th anniversary last week...
Mines & Medicine. Celebrating its 100th anniversary last week, the University of Utah could forget those of Founder Young's grandiose prophecies that had not been fulfilled, take pride in its present achievements. With 10,000 students, a faculty of 500, 151 buildings dotting a 450-acre campus, it boasts first-rate schools of liberal arts, engineering, mines and medicine. Although 76% of the student body and almost 50% of the faculty are of Mormon faith, it draws students from every state and 33 foreign countries, is nondenominational in its administration...
...occasion was a trip to St. Paul for the 100th anniversary of Minnesota as a territory. Truman ordered the presidential train hitched up, happily climbed aboard his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He would make a "nonpolitical, bipartisan speech," he declared with a grin. What was that? Said Truman genially: "It is a speech that throws no bricks at any other political party." Big Bill Boyle, national Democratic chairman, beamed concurrence. "Sure," said Bill. "I'm along to see that he doesn't do anything political." Both were almost overcome with the humor...
Last week, when the New Mexican celebrated its 100th birthday,* it had long since broken its neutrality promise, was not only the oldest newspaper in the West but one of the most politically powerful little dailies (circ. 10,565) in the U.S. In honor of its centennial, the New Mexican published a 124-page edition, in which such long-departed local heroes and villains as Billy the Kid, Geronimo and Archbishop John (Death Comes for the Archbishop) Lamy made posthumous headlines. The New Mexican's tough, fighting Editor Will Harrison suspended his running feud with New Mexico...