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...Angeles this morning. He was to be greeted at the airport by Robert E. Gross '19, president of Lockheed Aircraft. At a reception scheduled for 6:30 this evening, he was to be joined by Deeb E. Peter '34, president of the Harvard Club of Southern California; William H. Burgess '41 Bus., president of the Business School Club of Southern California; Dana Latham '22 Law, president of the Law School Association of Southern California; and Lowell F. Bushnell '33 Med., president of the Medical Alumni Association of Southern California...
...policy that would promote production, full employment and purchasing power. Almost to a man, U.S. businessmen agreed that rising production is sorely hindered by present federal taxes. Though postwar investment in plants and equipment has soared to alltime records, American Cyanamid Co.'s Economist Ralph E. Burgess pointed out that 80% of the cash is to replace worn-out facilities. And mainly the hope for large capital gains in the boom has kept venture capital flowing steadily, said Harvard University Professor J. Keith Butters. "In a time of depression and investor pessimism" present tax laws might dry up these...
Thus, after more than four years of stubborn official silence, bumbling and evasion, Britain's government undertook to explain how Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean had managed to work as spies for Russia within the Foreign Office and then escaped untouched...
Calming the Clamor. Ever since the government published its inadequate white paper (TIME, Oct. 3), the press has clamored for more explanations. Who protected and promoted Burgess and Maclean? Who tipped them off that the jig was up? Who let them escape...
...Simone. Then Composer Leonard Bernstein took over for a splendidly lucid primer on the world of jazz. Pointing out that blues are based on a rhymed couplet in iambic pentameter with the first line repeated, Bernstein developed a lowdown blues song from Shakespeare.* Bernstein looks like a young Burgess Meredith, speaks with extraordinary clarity and intelligence and is always able to demonstrate precisely what he is talking about...