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Harvard spares: Coste, Arnold, Abbott, Moseley, Minot, Coulter, Allen, Ward, Huntington, Chase...
...dried deal that 66-year-old Louis St. Laurent would succeed him. There were other able (and younger) cabinet ministers in the running: Douglas Abbott (Finance), Brooke. Claxton (Defense), J. L. Ilsley (Justice) and James Gardiner (Agriculture). But the word had got around that St. Laurent had received the nod from Mackenzie King, and that alone put him far out in front. Besides, his succession would preserve the growing tradition of alternating
Bridges' warning is apparently no longer a deterrent to science's Peeping Toms. The 20th Century analyst, says Charles D. Abbott, is "passionately absorbed in the pursuit of hows and whys," and flatly refuses "to accept anything, even a work of art, without . . . trying to discover the laws that govern its making, the impulses that give it birth." So when Professor Abbott, a true son of his times, took over the Lockwood Memorial Library of the University of Buffalo, he struggled to find some up-to-date way of expressing his passionate interest in poetry...
Lassoing Director. There were a few rebuffs: touchy Poet Ezra Pound blew his top; and the Widow Bridges remarked delicately that "she felt that there were statements in [her husband's] philosophy which implied a fundamental opposition to the theories behind our project." But undaunted Director Abbott galloped over England and the U.S., roping poets left and right-". . . lunch at Taplow with Walter de la Mare . . . the Isle of Wight with Alfred Noyes. . . . Witter Bynner adobe-housed at Santa Fe . . . Louis Untermeyer [cornered] in a cool fastness of the Adirondacks. . . ." Director Abbott sometimes corralled as many as five poets...
...inflated prices of fresh fruits & vegetables (normally imported from the U.S., now largely banned) there was no remedy yet. Abbott did a little muscle-flexing and told the Prices Board to start "exemplary prosecutions" where prices are "higher than is reasonable and just." While government leaders talked of scaring the daylights out of the profiteers, housewives in Montreal still paid 59? a head for lettuce...