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Overshadowed by the importance of hurricane rehabilitation and the electric European situation, two otherwise commendable new activities at Harvard have blossomed this autumn without the customary fanfare which is rightfully theirs. Perhaps this anonymity exists because the number of people involved is small; perhaps it is due to the fact that neither of the groups has yet had time to produce any outstanding contributions to their particular field. For the nine new Nieman Fellows and the thirteen new graduate students of the Littauer School of Public Administration, who compose what are probably this University's smallest departments, have barely considered...
...summer died and autumn rains swept the Atlantic seaboard, jolly Professor Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby last week talked about weather in a Swedish accent to members of the Fifth International Congress of Applied Mechanics, at Cambridge. Mass. New facts had been obtained, said Dr. Rossby, from weather sounding balloons and airplane explorations of the upper atmosphere. These had been woven together into an original theory about the general circulation of the atmosphere, an elaborate theory still thin in spots, but one that raises scientific hopes for more accurate weather prediction...
...divisions of the German Army had begun a month of divisional training. Corps maneuvers in the 18 corps areas were under way this week. But it was agonizingly plain to those on the opposite side of the Rhine that Germany was not merely engaged in normal autumn military exercises...
...This autumn there is no fresher news in the world of art than the mushrooming of these Community Art Centres. Among the least publicized concerns of the Federal Art Project, they are fast becoming its most cherished offspring. Located mainly in cities where no art museums or schools previously existed, they have had an attendance so far of about 4,000,000 people-almost equal to the combined two years' attendance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and Chicago's Art Institute. They are designed to be, and promise to be, permanent; for they belong...
...this point, Viscount Runciman, British mediator who has been hoping to drag out negotiations until autumn, took action. Viscount Runciman had been 15 days in Czechoslovakia without meeting Konrad Henlein, who thought his prestige would be enhanced if he made the British lord call on him. This, the Viscount had refused to do, but in last week's emergency Lord Runciman consented to motor from Prague into the Sudeten Nazi territory and meet Herr Henlein in the castle of Prince Max von Hohenlohe, whose lands extend right up to the German frontier...