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...Atomic Age. As a white-smocked scientist twisted the knobs on a control panel outside a monolithic concrete cubicle, a lighted dial flashed: REACTOR ON. Thus the world's first nuclear reactor devoted exclusively to industrial research went into operation at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation...
High point of San Juan Week was Sunday, feast of San Juan. After a Pontifical High Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Name, a 5,000-strong procession made for the Chicago Avenue Armory and an afternoon and evening of island-style fun and games. Armour & Co. provided 500-odd pigs and the prize for reaching the top of a well-greased pole was a color television...
...even the hungriest reader might find the most sympathetic character a half-breed named Buffalo Dung, who deeply dislikes David and aims an arrow at his digestive juices. Unhappily, Buffalo Dung misses, and the epic staggers to its end like a strayed moose caught in an Armour's assembly line. By then, for those who wonder Quo Vardis Fisher?, heap big David and contented new Squaw Sunday are headed West, perhaps to Hollywood...
...University and the profession, but otherwise the situation is reasonably well in hand. We have been fortunate in securing the services of four distinguished persons as visiting lecturers: Miss Rosemond Tuve of Connecticut College, Mr. Northrup Frye of Toronto, Mr. F. W. Dupee of Columbia, and Mr. Armour Craig of Amherst. They will help repair the deficiencies occasioned by the sabbatical leaves of Professors Brower and Guerard; and as for Professors Levin and Bate and myself, we shall all teach here for half the year. In short, the "poor English major," whose plight you deplore, will not find himself rattling...
...Fred A. Manske, 55, became president of National Gypsum replacing Lewis R. Sanderson, who retired at the age of 65 in accordance with a company rule. Chicago-born Fred Manske, a graduate mechanical engineer (Armour Institute of Technology, '23) is a born go-getter who financed most of his education from a newspaper delivery route and a handbill distribution business, worked as a bill collector at 16. He broke into the industry as sales correspondent for U.S. Gypsum by day, by night studied accounting and marketing at Northwestern University, dabbled in inventions (20 patents). In 1934 Manske moved over...