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Astronomers lecturing for the Friday night series this winter have been Leo Goldberg, of New Bedford, a Bemis Fellow of the Harvard Observatory; Samuel L. Thorndike, Research Associate of the Observatory; Miss Francis Wright, Astronomical Assistant of Princeton University, now working at Harvard: Horace Taylor, of Brookline, past president of the Bond Astronomical Club: Leon Campbell, Pickering Memorial Astronomer of Harvard; Dr. Bart J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Harvard; Miss Edith Jones, of Waldron, Ind., second year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Miss Barbara Cherry, of West Roxbury, first year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Dantel Norman...
Taking President Roosevelt's side of the question are Bedford Johnson '40, Sherman Tonkonow '40, and William F. Pennebaker '40. Concluding meet this year will be with Groton on May 7, following which will be tryouts for the Coolidge Debating Prize for Freshmen and the H-Y-P triangular contest...
...Commission in Washington last week was President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Not afoul of SEC was the country's biggest oil company. The Commission merely wanted Mr. Teagle to answer a question which he himself had asked in a letter to Frederick H. Bedford Jr., a working Standard director: Why did Standard "happen to be so directly interested" in a protective committee for defaulted bonds of the Republic of Colombia...
Three of the six committee members certainly owed allegiance to Standard, which happens to be the biggest single taxpayer in oil-rich Colombia-Director Bedford, Standard's attorney James Henry Hayes and Adman Harrison K. McCann of McCann-Erickson, some 15% of whose business is in Standard Oil accounts. Furthermore, the committee had occupied rent-free quarters in the Standard Oil building at No. 26 Broadway, Manhattan. On the face of it, grumbled Mr. Teagle to Director Bedford, he was forced to agree with a friend of his who remarked that the committee was "pretty well plastered with...
Real hero of None Shall Look Back is Nathan Bedford Forrest, guerrilla fighter whom Lee called the best cavalry leader in either camp, though they had never met (TIME, June 22, 1931). To rescue him from the half-oblivion in which he lurks as a semiliterate, half-savage raider, Author Gordon pens many a panegyric page, sometimes lets her feminine enthusiasm get the better of military idiom, as when she speaks of Forrest's horse as being "shot out from under...