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After his eldest son was killed in World War I, Lord Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth), late proprietor of the sensational London Daily Mail, endowed a chair at Oxford. Its purpose: to acquaint Britons with their recent American allies. Since 1922 such sober, unsensational U.S. historians as Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison, Princeton's Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and Columbia's Allan Nevins have occupied the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship of American History. Last week a 29-year-old, crewcut veteran of World War II sailed for England to become the new Harmsworth professor, as well as the first...
Borch is in the United States as one of seven European students who are being sent throughout the country by the World Student Service Fund in an attempt to acquaint American students with the plight of the future leaders of Europe...
Said the Laborite Daily Herald (in a front-page headline): WALLACE SPEECH JUST A BLUNDER. It suggested that Secretary Wallace acquaint himself with the British withdrawal from India...
Even fairy tales were under attack. Pravda blasted two children's magazines for printing "nonsensical fairy tales, which take the youthful reader out of the realm of reality or distort the truth about the Soviet Union." Instead, said Pravda sternly, they should acquaint "young readers with the problems of life and the struggle of our Socialist fatherland...
...order to acquaint its readers with the current production of "Winterset" before the brief run which the Dramatic Club plans for it, the Crimson has reviewed a dress rehearsal of the performance. The Crimson recognize that certain changes may be made before tonight's opening...