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...dear-money war" of 1914-18 you could rent your patriotic funds to King & country for as much as 5%. A daring pilot in the Royal Air Force in those days was Major Sir John Allsebrook Simon, who then sported a thick mop of hair. Last week, now bald as an egg, Sir John Simon rose in the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer again to do his bit for King & country, this time by trying to make World War II definitely "a cheap-money war" so far as Great Britain is concerned...
...convention opened, bald, husky Dr. Stoddard rose to report. He twinkled: "Only a confirmed Pollyanna would say that, as a committee, we have performed our task in a spirit of loving kindness. ..." Listeners looked at each other, wondered when the fireworks would start. They never did start. Long before the end it had dawned on the delegates that there would be no debate, because no one cared to get up and contend that nurture had nothing to do with intelligence. Said the final speaker, University of Chicago's Sociologist Ernest Watson Burgess: "[The] consensus [is] that intelligence, at least...
Jerome Frank is a warm-blooded, quick-witted, supersensitive, argument-loving man of 51 with a bald sloping brow, bulging eyes, and the slightly travel-worn air of a shambling, sub-leonine cat. At University of Chicago he is remembered as one of the two brightest students of pre-war generations. (The other: Benjamin Cohen.) Son of law-loving Chicago Lawyer Herman Frank, Jerome had a reputation for legal brilliance almost before he started practice. This he increased with the firm of Levinson, Becker, Schwartz & Frank, corporate specialists. Jerome also developed a reputation for hard work and absentmindedness. Asking...
Until six months ago Lake County had just one staid, old newspaper, the Waukegan News-Sun. Publisher Frank H. Just, bald, stern and 71, has been a newspaper man for 43 years, and a lifelong foe of gambling...
Frank Aydelotte, 59, is a compactly built fellow with an athlete's crouch, a bald head and a warm, crinkly smile. His big, bold ears are a campus joke which Dr. Aydelotte enjoys as much as anybody. When he became Swarthmore's president in 1921, after teaching English at Indiana University - his alma mater - and M.I.T., Frank Aydelotte had two aims: 1) to make bright students study more; 2) to de-professionalize college athletics...