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Most remarkable fact about the 1937 kudos list was the abdication of the nation's four perennial kudos champions. Nicholas Murray Butler, who received his 35th honorary degree last winter from Trujillo University in San Domingo, appeared to be satisfied. Nor were there any degrees in prospect last week for the New York Times's commencement-speaking Editor John Huston Finley (30), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27). In their stead 1937 had produced many a new public face...
...earnest and efficient history. McSpaden led by three holes after the first five, Shute by three holes after the first 1 8. In the afternoon, McSpaden worked his way back to a lead of 2 up with three to play. Shute evened the match on the 35th green. On the 36th, needing to hole a 4-ft. putt for the title. McSpaden watched his ball graze the side of the cup and stay out. On the extra hole. Shute had a putt of the same distance for a 4 to his opponent's 5. He holed...
Thomas Edmund Dewey celebrated his 35th birthday last week, but he had to wait until next day to get the finest present of his life. It was given him by a jury which for more than nine weeks had been listening to the case he had built up, as New York City's brilliant Special Prosecutor, against seven men accused of running a Manhattan restaurant racket...
Last week in New Orleans gathered the 35th Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, plus its affiliated lay organizations, the National Federations of Temple Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods. Like the Rabbis, the Union seemed no longer sure of the virtues of modernism and Americanism. It was aware that enemies, in and out of Jewry, use the word "assimilation" as an insult, an accusation that Reform seeks to un-Jew the Jew. So the Union in the most notable of the resolutions it passed last week voiced its faith in Jewishness. In an unmistakable trend back toward Orthodoxy, the delegates...
...hospitalized behind the lines after the Argonne offensive with a hole in his neck and a piece of shrapnel in his lung, Sergeant DeWitt Wallace of the 35th U. S.. Infantry perfected his plans for a magazine of condensed reprints culled from all the publications on the market. The tremendous success of this notion of a wounded soldier in 1918 was made manifest this week by a unique and thoroughgoing account of Reader's Digest published in FORTUNE...