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...They wanted to know why Defense Advisory Commission's Ed Stettinius hadn't put scrap on his list of embargoed strategic materials issued four weeks ago. Scrap brokers could retort that there is no scrap shortage as yet. But if Defense orders put steel's autumn production rate as high as patriots hope, steel mills will have to buy in a sellers' market whose origin can be blamed in good part on Japan...
...Last autumn, when it appeared that Europe was beyond Basic for the moment, Ivor Richards shifted his field. With a Rockefeller Foundation grant of $10,000 a year for five years, he returned to Harvard, brought together several of his most brilliant followers, including a winsome, 24-year-old Chinese girl named T'an Pin Pin. One of the first things they did was to arrange with station WRUL, Boston, for daily, half-hour broadcasts in Basic English on short wave for Latin America. These broadcasts (news reports, features, a daily lesson in Basic) have gone on all winter...
...next autumn, however, Ivor Richards plans an extended program. He and his colleagues have completed a primary text of Basic English for Spanish-speaking peoples which will be published by Houghton Mifflin. They have also completed a first-year primer with a Portuguese text for Brazil. Two of them, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tucker, left last month for Quito, Ecuador, to establish there a Basic English School and to study the results of next autumn's broadcasts. This school will have a competitor, for there is already a well-subsidized German school in Quito...
When Swarthmore's beloved President Frank Aydelotte announced last autumn that he would quit to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, it was a good bet that he would pick his own successor. Swarthmore's faculty, alumni and trustees last week elected as president Dr. Aydelotte's assistant, Professor John William Nason...
...sunlit clearing on Belle Isle, between nonbelligerent Detroit and warring Canada, since last autumn there has been building a 90-ft. tower for a carillon dedicated to peace. It was conceived by a little old lady, Nancy Brown, aged 69, and paid for by the nickels and dimes contributed by those who read her famed lovelorn column in the Detroit News (TIME...