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Last week a civilian was chosen to direct the U. S. draft: big (6 ft. 3 in., nearly 200 lb.), incisive Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin. Denied top place in the new Selective Service Administration was the Army's able Lieut. Colonel Lewis Blaine Hershey, who prepared the draft machinery and stood by to teach Director Dykstra its ins & outs...
...Addison Brown prize of $250, for the best essay by a Law School student on a subject of maritime or private international law, was awarded to Hans H. Frey, of Kingston, pa., who graduated from the Law School in June...
...first six months, Great Britain's "first major casualty" was her national school system. So said Lord Addison to the House of Lords last month. Only half of Britain's city children had been evacuated to the country in the first place. Of those who went last September, nearly half have drifted back...
...centuries ago, Pietro Aretino's fame was still such that Joseph Addison could doubt whether a single man alive did not know who he was. Today, except to literary specialists, his name is the mildest of pornographic hearsay. Thomas Caldecot Chubb's somewhat frumpish but thoroughgoing biography should do a lot toward resurrecting...
...such a political kicking around as the University of Wisconsin. In 1937 Wisconsin's then Governor Philip Fox La Follette packed the University's Board of Regents with his own men and ousted slick Glenn Frank from the presidency. Hardly had Phil La Follette got Clarence Addison Dykstra, Cincinnati's flood city manager, into the job than Wisconsin did a political about-face and elected plump, pink Republican Julius Peter ("The Just") Heil to the Governorship (TIME, Jan. 16). Governor Heil promptly declared war on President Dykstra...