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Syracuse, New York; President: E. Tefft Barker '37, 300 First Trust & Deposit Building, Syracuse...
...into effect this fall. Last year he gave up his teaching duties for the spring term to become Co-Director of Mobilization Analysis Center. There his job is to run the military research projects that the Business School has taken on for the Defense Department. Despite the fact that Barker will resume his teaching next year he will still make weekly trips to Washington. As he is an important figure in both places he will have plenty of chance to enjoy his interest in all things to do with transportation...
...Meanwhile, the duke was busy boning up on Canadian history and making speeches at home (see SCIENCE). He also found time to attend a London Variety Club luncheon at which he was given a life membership certificate (putting him on equal footing with Harry Truman) and hailed as "Brother Barker." As just plain "Papa," he joined his wife on the lawn of Clarence House, their London home, to give photographers a homey picture of royal family life with Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who is one year old this week, in the crawling stage and the proud possessor...
...Convictions. Barker's hero, who is nameless, is a young writer of 19 who has just been married to a girl three years older. His senses still swim in an adolescent daydream of genius. When he looks out of a window, he can envision a little girl being torn to pieces by archangels, but he can neither face the plain reality of his wife's pregnancy, nor meet a man's emotional and spiritual responsibilities in his marriage...
...logic is bad, but it expresses the immemorial conviction of men who would rather be safe anywhere, even in hell, than be exposed to the unbearable danger of looking into their own consciences. Author Barker, Englishman and minor poet, has little skill in the novelist's trade, none at all in creating characters; yet sometimes his phrases light up dark corners of the human spirit...