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...Shannon whirl through their chore by rote, they also pause long enough to give out a good many brass rings. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft gets a grudging tribute but a high one: "He never ducks an issue." Illinois' Paul Douglas is described as "outstandingly the ablest man in the Senate ... for solid intellectual force...
...represented in the coalition cabinet, but Venizelos himself stayed aloof. When Venizelos ordered the five to resign last fortnight, the cabinet promptly collapsed and King Paul entrusted Venizelos himself with the task of forming a new government. Plastiras and Papandreou rushed home, but Tsouderos, one of Greece's ablest politicans, stayed on in Washington. This week it looked as if Venizelos would stay on as Premier for a while...
Died. Douglas McGarel Hogg, first Viscount Hailsham, 78, one of Britain's ablest jurists and staunchest Tories, Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for War and Lord President of the Council during the '20s and '30s; in Hurstmonceaux, England. Viscount Hailsham's father, Quintin Hogg, was a wealthy reformer, founded London's Polytechnic Institute. Viscount Hailsham's eldest son, Quintin McGarel Hogg (who now succeeds to the title and a seat in the House of Lords), is an M.P., a brilliant lawyer, and author (The Case for Conservatism...
...significant reflection of the neglect: fully half of the young people in the top 10% never get to college. This week the Educational Policies Commission issued a 100-page report, Education of the Gifted, supervised by Conant, with an analysis of the problem and recommendations for keeping the ablest students busy, interested and intellectually growing. "The might-have-beens of history are will-o-the-wisps," said the commission report. "But the might-yet-be's of the future are challenges to action...
...Grand Alliance, by Winston Churchill. The third volume, covering 1941, of the ablest, most colorful contribution yet made to the history of the war (TIME...