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...Bertrand Russell, philosophical hot potato of U.S. campuses (TIME, Feb. 1, et seq.), let it be known that he could not support his family in the U.S., would therefore return to England. As a jobhunter he had been turned down, he said, by Harvard, Columbia, N.Y.U. and the Universities of Chicago and California...
...Jenkins did not yet seem wholly convinced. But except for some loud ranting by California's rampageous Bertrand W. Gearhart and some quiet sniping by New York's crustacean Daniel A. Reed, the Republicans generally seemed relaxed. At this point renewal looked like a safe bet. Economic isolationism might still have a strong hold on the Jenkinses of the U.S., but it was clear that the nation, however slowly, was marching carefully ahead on a path toward participation in the outside world...
...Bishop in the Episcopal Church relishes a tussle over principle more than New York's stern, small William Thomas Manning. He has taken on and worsted many a smart tussler, including Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Bertrand Russell...
...Russell did not show up for his regular lecture. It was the chance Barnes had been waiting for. His trustees immediately announced that "Mr. Bertrand Russell has discontinued his lectures" and that the contract was broken. Russell last week sued Barnes for the $24,000 the philosopher was to receive through 1945. The Philadelphia Record suggested that Dr. Barnes "subsidize Russell so that a controversy enjoyed by all might be continued without undue hardship upon one of the principals." Growled Barnes: "The suggestion may be practicable...
...last three years California's Stanford University has scouted high & low for a new president to succeed long, lean Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, 67. Last week it announced the choice: tall, tanned, tactful Donald Bertrand Tresidder...