Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astronomer Bart J. Bok will leave the University to become director of the Commonwealth Observatory of Australia and professor of Astronomy at the Australian National University...
Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, Alexander Pope and the poetic tradition; I. Bernard Cohen '37, associate professor of History of Science, the development and the influence of Newton's ideas on the eighteenth century; Philip J. Darlington, Jr. '26, Curator of Recent Insects, the Australian carabid beetles; Glanville Downey, associate professor of Byzantine Literature at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, the history of Antioch on the Orontes...
...defected two years ago from the Soviet embassy in Australia. As pictured on TV by Michael Gorrin, Petrov seemed far too dumb to have been head of Red espionage down under, and the show spent much of its time commiserating over the soul struggles of Sanford Meisner, playing the Australian counterspy who won Petrov to freedom...
Woolworth Hour (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). The Australian Jazz Quartet...
...seems that more things went on behind Queen Victoria's billowing black bombazine skirts than her spiritual grandsons have been led to believe. It is probably too late to set matters straight, but Australian Cyril Pearl has made an industrious try at striking "Victorianism" from the lexicon as the synonym for middle-class prudery...