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Died. James Lukens McConaughy, 60, 75th Governor of Connecticut (1947-48), longtime college president (Knox College, 1918-25, Wesleyan University, 1925-43); of coronary thrombosis; in Hartford. A liberal educator who became Lieutenant Governor in 1939, lean, austere-looking "Big Jim" once wrote: "With all the temptations, dangers and degradations that beset it, politics is still, I think, the noblest career that a man can choose...
John U. Monro '34, now Counsellor for Veterans, had this to say in the CRIMSON's 75th Anniversary issue last term; "Nowhere else in the College is the flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed. . . . A man learns to write. . . . This is what enables editors to pass examinations and stay in College, and the value of the lessor does not always diminish in later years." The competition, which will last for ten weeks, is open to freshmen and first term sophomores...
King Haakcon VII came in for a little court jesting on the eve of his 75th birthday. Norway's Danish-born monarch granted audience to Danish-born Axel Lund, who runs a number of Norwegian hotels. The King said that he was happy to meet a Dane who had done so well in Norway. Replied Lund: "So am I, Your Majesty...
Last week, on its 75th Birthday, Popular Science was hardly as intellectual as in Youmans' day, but it was much (circ. 1,000,000) more popular. Its 288-page anniversary issue proudly called the roll of such contributors as Henry George, Charles Darwin, William James, Havelock Ellis, John Dewey, Thomas A. Edison, Charles Kettering. By shrewdly aiming at the home mechanic who yearns for a speaking acquaintance with atomic physics, and the scientist who yearns for a handcraft hobby, PSM had become the giant in its oddly assorted field...
Eminent jurists from all over the world have contributed to a book published this month in honor of the 75th birthday of Roscoe Pound, University Professor and former Dean of the Law School. "A man's head swells a little under such circumstances," said Dean Pound yesterday, adding that the book contains the writings of "some of the biggest names in the science of law in the world...