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...University will apparently confer one of 11 prestigious honorary degrees at tomorrow's Commencement exercises on Francis Birch '24, a retired Harvard geologist...
...Birch, one of the nation's foremost geo-physicists, yesterday abided by the long standing Harvard tradition of keeping the names of honorary-degree recipients a secret until the moment they are called to receive their diplomas...
...This is all confidential," he said. "It's a lot simpler for me not to talk about it. "Birch refused to discuss the subject further...
...detective fiction was still mired and moored in the melodramatic. Even at the turn of the century, detective books tended to involve a lot of heaving bodices, bloody hands and guilt that showed on people's faces like stigmata. There was lots of madness too, with birch trees whispering in the glens, repeating endlessly the names of hidden killers. All in all, it didn't have a hell of a lot to do with the era of the machine gun, of the celebrity poisonings, of the union-busting towns in the West that were run for and by thugs. Lead...
...school with other teachers, the district's superintendent warned, as he later wrote in a memo, that "it would be extremely dangerous to engage in any discussion that might seem contrary to the generally understood political position of the institution." Later, Pastor LaHaye helpfully sent along John Birch Society materials for Barton to study. Barton was also criticized for hiring two Catholics to work at Christian High. After reviewing the record, current School Superintendent Alex Lackey said Barton's dismissal was based "solely on his inadequacies as an administrator...