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...James M. Landis, former dean of the Law School, received a Brandeis medallion in Washington yesterday as part of the Lous D. Brandeis centennial observance. Dr. Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis University, made the presentation...
...through the fund-raising abilities of President Abram L. Sacher, and through such devices as foster alumni, money was gathered. Through high salaries and freedom from administrative burdens, an eminent faculty was assembled. Now, as the University concludes its eighth year, thousands of benefactors, hundreds of alumni, and Sachar and his staff can look back on a noteworthy achievement in American education and a milestone in the history of American Jewry...
Mathematician George Abram Miller never had any children of his own, but his students at the University of Illinois liked to call him "Papa." A stubby, white-thatched little man who always kept a box of nuts handy for the squirrels, he was an expert on the theory of finite groups, published more than 800 learned articles, owned one of the best private mathematical libraries in the U.S. But for all his brilliance, Papa Miller had a distracted air that sometimes seemed complete bewilderment. He was hopeless with a car, helpless with a furnace, and he invariably began his sentences...
...star of the show was Norma, a statue by Sculptor Abram Belskie, whose measurements approximate those of the average U.S. woman age 20-24. Specifications: height, 5 ft. 6 in.; weight, 123 Ibs.; bust, 33.9 in.; waist, 26.4; hips, 37.4. As described by Anthropologist Harry Shapiro, Norma, following the general U.S. trend, has greater height, a heavier waistline and narrower hips than the women of previous generations. But, though taller than her grandmother was, Norma is still dwarfed by the present-day fashion ideal. Dr. Shapiro doubted that Norma would get much taller in the future, since the U.S. process...
Introduced by Abram L. Sachar, President of Brandeis University, as "one of the world's foremost Jewish historians,' Baron emphasized, in his talk the involuntary contributions the Jewish race has made in Western society...