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Because no fire has yet shot out of Madison's smoke, the national Press has ignored it. Investigation finds several points of friction causing the smoke. Under the regime of Conservative Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, Dr. Frank vexed Wisconsin Liberals by refusing to permit Dora (Mrs. Bertrand) Russell to lecture on Companionate Marriage. Also against strong Liberal sentiment, he got a $350,-ooo gift from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Experimental College which Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn was imported to develop has been flayed for lack of discipline. And there are other minor issues. But, chiefly, personalities are involved. Many...
Died. John Francis Stanley, Earl Russel, 65, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Arthur William Russell (who succeeds to the title); of heart disease; in Marseilles. Grandson of Lord John Russell, Victorian Prime Minister, he was, like his brother, a scientist and Socialist. Once a Buddhist, later an agnostic, he married three times. He divorced his first wife, Mabel Scott, in Reno and immediately married Mollie Cooke, twice-divorced sister-in-law of the Bishop of Kilmore. Since his divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House...
...five Bertrand Russell's favorite hymn was "Weary of earth and laden with my sin." At the tender age of eight he hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide. He was restrained from any such self violence, however, by the desire to know more mathematics. Be emerged from this adolescent slough of despond to enjoy a happy and fruitful manhood. In "The Conquest of Happiness" Mr. Russell lays down his method in achieving this amazing metamorphosis with the hope that his experiences may be of some use to the world at large...
...from England include Edmund Blunden, author of "Undertones of War"; Siegfried Sassoon, who wrote "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer"; Henry W. Nevinson, veteran war correspondent; H. M. Tomlinson, who was a war correspondent and also wrote "All Our Yesterdays." Among other signatories are H. G. Wells, Sir William Orpen. Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Leonard Woolf, G. D. H. Cole and the Bishop of Birmingham. New York Times
...Author. The fame of Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell will hardly be increased if he becomes third Earl Russell (he is heir presumptive). Philosopher, mathematician, he is great & good friend to Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, with whom he wrote Principia Mathematica, incomprehensible to laymen, to mathematicians a delight. During the War Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven...