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...Arthur Becket Lamb, Director of the University Chemical Laboratories since 1912, will retire from that office on July 1, the University announced last night. He will continue as an active professor of chemistry...
English antiquarians were delighted at the promise of speedier restoration for one of their oldest churches-traditional seat of St. Augustine, martyring-place of Thomas a Becket, repository of the bones of saints, and the goal of Chaucer's pilgrims. British economists were pleased to have this unexpected addition to Britain's dollar balance. But Thomas Lament's gift could be better measured in other terms. In his letter of thanks, the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote...
When the Black Death swept England in 1348, it was the Nottingham alabaster men who supplied the new-found piety of the survivors with miniature bas-reliefs and statuettes of the Passion, Thomas à Becket, the lives of the saints, and the bleeding head of John the Baptist (see cut). The panels were carved from soft, creamy alabaster quarried at Tutbury and Chellaston Hill, then were painted, gilded, and generally built into wooden boxes with hinged doors for private worshipers to part...
...encyclopedist who loved facts for their own sakes. He never learned the difference between a big fact and a little one; his head and his dim little office in the National Press Building were overstuffed with trivia. (His "A" file was crowded with items like "a in Thomas a Becket," and "Addison Sims of Seattle.") His cluttered, rolltop desk was buried under facts, but barren of news. He had a scholar's knowledge of Shakespeare, history and cats. Once he went to Europe just to track down elusive points like the exact height of Mary, Queen of Scots...
...conservative and even reactionary force. Two months ago the governors of the Church met at Malvern and formulated a set of propositions and suggestions for the post-war world which may well influence the government far more than anything the Church has done since the days of Thomas a Becket...