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...morning of Aug. 15 (as the Navy told about it last week), William Barton Bridgeman, Douglas Aircraft Co. test pilot, climbed into a B29, sat down in its crew's quarters as it took off from Edwards Air Force Base on Muroc Dry Lake, Calif. Under the bomber's belly hung Bill Bridgeman's own baby: the milk-white Douglas Skyrocket, slim, needle-nosed, with four rocket motors...
Died. Commander John Kenneth Levison Ross, 75, railroad scion (his father: James Ross, a builder of the Canadian Pacific) who inherited $10 million in 1916, set up a racing stable which sent Canada's only Kentucky Derby winner to the post (Sir Barton, 1919); after long illness; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...
...well is the U.S. college teacher carrying out his primary responsibility, i.e., teaching his students how to think? Not at all well, says Harvard Philosopher Ralph Barton Perry (Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus), in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
Professor Ralph Barton Perry told the members of Phi Beta Kappa this week that it is far easier to get educated than to stay educated. That is the challenge of commencement in a capsule. This year's graduates, like every year's, will be urged to remake the world that their ancestors have mangled, to preserve freedom, to learn to make decisions, and to be good citizens. Most of them will do these things automatically, according to their own beliefs and abilities, because these are the prescribed things...
Poet William Carlos Williams, a new honorary member, and Ralph Barton Perry '96, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, gave the addresses at the literary exercises. Williams read an original poem, called "The Desert Music," and Barton presented an oration entitled, "The Troubled Citizen...