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...leaven its solid fare of political and artistic comment, London's socialist New Statesman and Nation conducts weekly "competitions" in epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...
Candidates: Dewey George Archambault, Jr., Blair Morton Boyd, Jr., John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., John Edwin Carlson, Jr., Thomas Henry Collins, Walter Coulson, Frederick Deane, Jr., John Morton Dunn, Weston Joseph Durant, Robert Scarborough Erakine, Jr., Allan Sulyard Garon, Charles Nelson Gregg, Jr., Peter Green Harwood, Harry, Peter Haveles...
Died. Donald Bertrand Tresidder, 53, president of Stanford University since 1943; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Businessman Tresidder ran the university without sacrificing academic standards, largely through personal magnetism attracted nearly $8 million in endowments. Enormously popular with the students, "Uncle Don" managed to abolish sororities in 1944 without arousing any personal resentment...
Twin Sisters. The first of Whitehead's 22 books (A Treatise on Universal Algebra) was published in 1898; his final volume (Essays in Science and Philosophy) appeared last year (TIME, May 12). After a nine-year collaboration with his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, Whitehead wrote the monumental Principia Mathematica (1910). This book approached mathematics not as a science of magnitude but as a science of deduction; it undertook to replace two existing sciences-logic and mathematics-by one new science, mathematical logic. Because Whitehead felt that "conventional English is the twin sister to barren thought" and that words...
...remaining members of the permanent class committee, listed according to the number of votes they polled, include Joseph Anthony Lewis, of New York City and Lowell House; Chester Middlebrook Pierce, of Glen Cove, New York and Lowell House; John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., of Dorchester; Harry Peter Haveles, of Roxbury; Jay Lawrence Fialkow, of Brookline and Adams House; Robert Stanley Leventhal, of Newton and Adams House...