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Washroom proximity, beauty, and financial veracity are all currently being tossed about in one of the bitterest faculty squabbles in years. Keyes D. Metcalf, head librarian, wants to merge the upstairs Widener public catalogue (Widener, Lamont, Houghton, and Deposit books listed by author, title, and subject) with the downstairs Union catalogue (90 percent of all University books listed by author only). He also wants the charge desk moved downstairs...
Music with Meals. As chaplain of the 1st Marines, Sporrer saw some of the bitterest fighting in Korea, shared the misery of the marines in their bloody, icy, splendid retreat from the Chosen Basin. There he built up his grievances against Army officers whom he accused of incompetence and claimed were "corrupted with a luxurious love of the comforts of life as well as with the lack of courage, bravery and interest in men that are expected . . ." He charged that supplies of such things as "delicate crackers, cookies, cheeses, also vast quantities of beer" being hauled to the front made...
...City. The system of government under which Cambridge now operates is a result of the activity of Harvard men, professors, and students alike. Plan E-a city manager government with proportional representation-has made city government better than before; yet its birth was marked by the last and the bitterest fights Cambridge and Harvard have ever...
...Tokyo. During the Italian campaign, Almond took the bitterest personal blow of his life. His only son, Ned, 23, West Point class of '43, fighting with the 45th Division in Germany, wag killed in action. In 1944, his son-in-law, Major Thomas Taylor Galloway, 24, first husband of his daughter Margaret, had been killed while flying over France...
...Oubaas (Old Master) was 80 last week. Nothing showed Jan Christian Smuts's continued influence more vividly than the way his enemies tried to spoil the party. But not even his former pupil and now bitterest rival, Premier Daniel Malan, could prevent Smuts's having the most rousing reception of a long life...