Word: brilliants
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Where Does the SEC Stand? In its eighth year, under its sixth chairman, Ganson Purcell (TIME, Jan. 26), SEC is not the thrill-a-minute New Deal star wagon it once was. For one thing, defense and war have drawn heavily upon its brilliant staff. OPA took not only ex-Commissioner Leon Henderson, but Utilities Expert Joe Weiner, Legal Eagle Dave Ginsburg; many a lesser technician has gone to defense work. Betting is that only 750 of its 1,250 employes will follow SEC to Rittenhouse Square...
...Church as well as the State. Preparation for these tasks must begin now." In emphasizing the need for post-war reconstruction, Dr. Lang clearly implied that his personal choice as a successor is the man who is probably the world's leading exponent of Christian social reconstruction: portly, brilliant, 60-year-old William Temple, Archbishop of York and second-ranking Anglican prelate...
...seventh son of a seventh son, Cosmo Lang was born a Presbyterian. In fact, his father was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland-as his brother became in 1935. After winning his M.A. from Glasgow University at 18, he had a brilliant career at Oxford, topped in 1886 with a first class in Modern History and the presidency of the famed Oxford Union (which York held in due course, too). In tending a political career, he studied law in London for the next three years, did not decide to enter the church until just before...
...brother Frederic, a vice president, has made newspaper trouble for the family in a small way; breach-of-promise suits have taken him twice to court, though never to the altar. But the only real rift in the clan was between Bernard and his cousin, old Ellis' brilliant son Richard...
Measured by this yardstick of his own making, President Conant has written a brilliant war-time report. From the "first asset is the Faculty" clause to the recommendation for an over-all survey of skilled manpower, it is the work of an intelligent liberal thinking in down-to-earth terms. Space limitations will not allow a full discussion of the report in one editorial, but some of the more provocative suggestions deserve mention...