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Lord Halifax, former English ambassador to the United States and present chancellor of Oxford, will visit the University from October 25 through 27. Halifax is in this country to attend the 250th anniversary of the founding of Yale. Harvard gave him an honorary degree in 1941; he was ambassador in America from...
Last week, Anglican Bishop Noel Baring Hudson of Newcastle arrived in Manhattan to see how the plantations, colonies and factories beyond the seas were doing for themselves. With him, in commemoration of the S.P.G.'s 250th anniversary, he carried a copy of the society's original charter. In a tour of ten Episcopal dioceses, Bishop Hudson will bring greetings from the S.P.G. to the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S., which during World War II contributed $553,000 to Church of England missions...
...clock in the Detroit city hall tower was bonging high noon when Harry Truman, to the strains of "Hail to the Chief," strode to the rostrum facing crowded Cadillac Square. To Detroit's shirtsleeved thousands, celebrating their city's 250th anniversary, and to the nation, the President spoke a somber warning...
...paraders will be costumed as Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who paddled through place du detroit-the narrows between Lakes Huron and Erie-and picked a spot to start the furtrading post that became Detroit. In a brisk, well-organized way, this week, Detroit is observing its 250th birthday...
...Rational Being. But the clearest answer came from Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold, speaking at the university's 250th anniversary commencement in New Haven (TIME, June 11). "I observe," said Griswold, "that you are resigned to a world in which people become numbers on Selective Service and Social Security cards; in which lotteries are illegal except when they deal with human life; and in which the individual, sacred to both Christianity and democracy, sometimes seems to exercise about as much control over his own fortunes and those of his fellow men as a baseball in the World...