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Died. Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, 73, pioneer juvenile-court reformer, champion of companionate marriage; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In the flaming '20s, his companionate-marriage idea - essentially a proposal for an enlightened attitude on marriage - was sensationally publicized as everything from trial marriage to free love, once led to his ejection from Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, when he shouted back at Bishop Manning, who had just assailed his "propaganda . . . in behalf of lewdness" from the pulpit. Soon after he reached the Denver bench 43 years ago, little Judge Lindsey started reforming...
Little Things. U.S. fighting men know that perhaps the greatest service being performed by the Red Cross is the one that seems the humblest-keeping up the morale of lonely men, whose homesickness is notorious. Said Red Cross Worker How ard Barr in Washington last week: "American soldiers were literally stunned when they saw Africa for the first time. . . . They thought they would find burning sands and blazing sun. . . . Instead they found intense cold . . . completely modern cities . . . Arabs and other natives who were unlike anything they had ever seen. . . . For the first time they really felt as though they were...
...territory occupied by the Japanese when they ran out of gasoline, and have been captured." He said that the names given by the Japanese were similar to those on the official list of missing men. Later, when the Japs announced four more names, one was confirmed (Lieut. George Barr, of Queens Village...
...thoroughly uninhibited discussion last week in an experiment by which St. John's College hopes to introduce the Great Books into the education of the U.S. Army. The idea-a weekly seminar on eight classics-belongs to St. John's redhaired, energetic President Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, who had already made Great Books the subject of a radio program (Invitation to Learning), an Annapolis Adult School and many civilian study clubs. His selections for Fort Meade: the Odyssey, Plato's Meno, Apology and Crito, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (Books 1, 2 and 7), Hamlet, King...
With captured British and U.S. tanks, freshly swastika-daubed, sprinkled among his two German and one Italian armored divisions, Rommel crossed the border south of Sidi Omar, sent one prong northeast through Sidi Barràni, one prong east and one southeast, jabbing at the British covering forces ahead...