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Stubbs's curiosity was not limited to horses. He was a qualified medical lecturer on human anatomy, did the technical illustrations for his friend Dr. John Burton's Essay Towards a Complete New System of Midwifery. He was a vigorous 75 when he executed his 7-by-12-ft. canvas of Hambletonian, after the horse's last triumphant win at Newmarket. Seven years later Stubbs died; his final ambitious project, half finished at his death, was to have been 30 anatomical tables contrasting the structure of the human body with that of the tiger and the fowl...
...Temporarily, the State Department is filling both McGhee's and Rusk's posts with career diplomats: Middle East Expert Burton Y. Berry and Far East Specialist John M. Allison. Probable permanent successor to McGhee: West Pointer Henry Byroade, 38, an Army colonel on detached service, who is now running State's German Affairs Bureau...
...President Marion LeRoy Burton of the University of Michigan told a convocation: "You students are lazy. You loaf, you gamble." TIME carried his remarks in the March 24 issue, with a footnote recalling that Hamlet had berated his young contemporaries in Elsinore with the words: "You jig, you amble...
...Chinese Communists. At present, he lives on the Indian-Tibet border, offering his life and knowledge to the people in that area. In Japan, the three Japanese fathers took, in refugees during the last war and helped to provide food and clothing to the homeless. Bishop Spence Burton '03 is serving in Nassau...
Kerr attempted to oust FPC Chairman Leland Olds, after loading the Commission with two of his oilcronies, Harrington Wimberly and Burton Bailing. They began a smear campaign to brand Olds as a Socialist, and the Senate rejected his renomination. Meanwhile Kerr railroaded a bill through the Senate which gave the natural gas producers legal protection against the FPC. Truman vetoed the measure, and Congress couldn't muster the necessary 2/3 majority to override the President...