Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. officially moved into the eleven-month-old United Nations powwow on postwar education. To London went the State Department's broad-beamed, broad-minded Ralph Edmond Turner, a brilliant and experienced educator. He will sit as an observer with the representatives of ten other United Nations (and the still unofficial observers of Russia, China, India, the British Dominions). Chairman is British education chief Richard Austen Butler...
...After brilliant records at Tulane, Loyola at New Orleans and Stanford (where in 1940 he won eight straight and the Rose Bowl championship), this season Shaughnessy is trying to rescue Pittsburgh from doldrums brought on by a violent attack of simon-pure amateurism. His Panthers have yet to make a touchdown, but he has found his dream team in football's record book, sets it out in his Football in War & Peace for fans to mull over...
...flock of German refugee professors called The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science (who give masters' and doctors' degrees quoted at par on the academic exchange). By the time the North African landing sealed France's leaky borders, the school also had a brilliant French troupe known as the Ecole glibre des Hautes Etudes (Free School of Advanced Studies). Director Johnson's native faculty includes such stars as N.Y.U.'s ebullient, scrappy Philosopher Sidney Hook; Columbia's handsome, encyclopedic Art Historian Meyer Schapiro; Queens College's lively Sociologist Kimball (grandson of Brigham...
...Yanks were tense and tired. Their hitting, never brilliant, was seriously off. The American League race had been a misnomer from August on, but this team had taken longer to nail down the pennant than any Yankee club since 1922. The only really bright spot was the pitching...
Chandler had pitched two good World Series games and lost them both. His Cardinal opposite, burly Mort Cooper, a 21-game winner this year, knows the power of such jinxes. Despite two years of brilliant National League hurling, Mort Cooper has yet to beat an American League team...