Word: branscomb
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Lewis McA. Branscomb, physicist, of Nashville, Tennessee. A.B. Duke University, 1945; A.M. Harvard...
...winners are: Lewis McA. Branscomb 2G, Wayland C. Griffith '45 2G, Peter MacNair 2G, Peter H. Nash 1G, Henry H. McR. Bain, Jr. 1G, Charles Breunig...
Last fortnight one of the South's richest private universities (endowment: $30 million) picked a new head man. As fourth chancellor in 71 years, Tennessee's Vanderbilt University chose mild-looking, shy Harvie Branscomb, 51, dean of Duke University's divinity school. Alabama-born Dr. (of Philosophy) Branscomb, onetime Rhodes Scholar, was a World War I friend of Vanderbilt's outgoing chancellor Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, now president of the Carnegie Foundation. They served together in Belgium on the Hoover relief commission. At Duke University, he has been an outstanding leader in the intellectual and moral progress...