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...National Council for American Education" has been spreading for a number of years now--jocularly labeled "Reducators at Harvard." The poor fellow's backbone promptly softened, and he decided it might be best in the "interests of interfaith unity" if Kirtley Mather did not address a student "Brotherhood Week" banquet...
Pressure, allegedly coming from the Catholic chaplain, has stopped the appearance of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, at a Syracuse University interdenominational banquet tomorrow night, apparently because of Mather's political leanings...
Pleasantly flustered, Robert Alphonso Taft looked out over the ballroom in the Sherman Hotel and guessed that he "was getting more notorious than that great Chicago citizen, Al Capone." Some 1,500 Executives Club businessmen cheered lustily. In distant banquet rooms, an overflow 1,000 listened by public-address system. Senator Taft, arriving in Chicago for the first time since his November triumph, had pulled the biggest turnout of any lunch-club speaker in recent memory...
...Professors in medical school," Dr. Robert Brown told a banquet of ballplayers in San Francisco last week, "can give a guy a bad time. Their oral examinations break many a medical student who can't take it." Dr. Brown, an intern at Southern Pacific General Hospital, credited his own success in medical school to pre-med training as a third baseman for the New York Yankees. "Big-league baseball conditioned me to hold up," said the "Golden Boy" who was paid a $50,000 bonus to sign with the Yanks in 1946. "I could look those profs...
Excitement mounted in Rio. Though Getulio was not expected to arrive till early this week, bandwagon-jumping politicos staged one banquet of homage after another. Cardinal Dom Jaime Camara announced a special Mass commemorating Vargas' election, although the church press had backed the Brigadeiro during the campaign. The staid Jockey Club said it would revive its annual "Prix Getulio Vargas," which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. At week's end a new samba was sweeping to the top of the pre-Carnival popularity list...