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...this field. Physics Ba, "Elementary Physics for Beginners--Mechanics, Heat, and Sound," heads the list of additions to the natural sciences. The Physics Department offers only five undergraduate courses beginning in March, and one of these concludes the work of the preceding term. Biology 24, "Animal Histology" (Professor Alden B. Dawson) has been added to the other six undergraduate courses, all starting courses, listed in that department...
...Essentialist chairman was talking strongly out of school. Wrote Fred Alden Shaw, founder-headmaster of the flourishing Detroit Country Day School, in School & Society...
With these and other explosions, Art Critic Edward Alden Jewell last week blew up in the New York Times. He was writing about a proposed temporary Victory Arch for Manhattan's Times Square, to be erected when the boys come marching home. The scheme, sponsored by the Broadway Association, was described by its backers as "an arch fashioned to represent two huge palm leaves which are emblematic of Victory. . . . At the apex of the main motif will be placed the figures of Peace and Justice. The finger of Peace will point in the direction of Europe and Asia. Justice...
...install them through the ship's sides. Another timesaver: giant "bathtubs" at Maywood give Navy self-propelled landing boats complete dock trials, uncover bugs within handy reach of a wrench. A third trick: when Kaiser's Fontana steel plant needed a blast furnace in a hurry, Alden Roach built him one (Consolidated had never touched furnaces before...
Despite all this, nonsmoking, teetotaling Alden Roach has time to play tennis on his own court beside his big white Monterrey-style home in fashionable San Marino. He collects ships' models, thinks up nicknames for his two children (currently called Punch & Judy), whirls visitors through the shipyards in a maroon Lincoln. But what he enjoys most is contemplating Consolidated's whopping backlog of $480,261,000 (including seven types of ships and 4-to-5-in. naval ack-ack guns) and thinking up tricks to chew that backlog up faster...