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...country does not have a single native graduate engineer, architect, chemist or agricultural expert; in all Ethiopia there is only one native physician. Selassie must rely on foreign help to bolster his ministries. Americans, who predominate among his advisers, govern the national bank, edit the official newspaper, run the nationalized airline, and direct highway construction. A Swedish military mission trains the Imperial Guard and a fledgling air force...
...rare background for talking about Russia, Communist scheming and Soviet thinking. In 1932, he decided to leave the University of Wisconsin and to learn something about the Soviet experiment by going prepared himself by taking a welder's course in the U.S., then worked as a welder and chemist at the Siberian industrial center of Magnitogorsk, married a Russian girl there. Then he spent several years in Moscow as a correspondent for the London News Chronicle and the French news agency Havas. In 1941 he wrote a series of articles about the growing friction between Hitler and Stalin...
Monkey Business (20th Century-Fox) works overtime at a far-fetched plot about a laboratory chimpanzee who accidentally mixes an elixir of youth. When Research Chemist Gary Grant and his wife (Ginger Rogers) drink some of this magical potion, they promptly revert to adolescence. Gary gets himself a crew haircut, a loud sport jacket and a fire-red convertible. Ginger, turning into a giggly jitterbug, slips a live goldfish into Tycoon Charles Coburn's trousers and plants a custard pie under his posterior...
...liberal education in the United States today. Inevitably he has also become the sort of public figure editors cherish for making news no matter what he speaks on. Conant is a familiar figure to periodical readers; to devotees of "Scientific American" he is known as a top-notch organic chemist, to the faithful of the "Boston Pilot" he appears as the arch-enemy of the parochial school system, and to those who buy the "Chicago Tribune" he is a sinster Mother Hen nourishing a flock of "Red fellow-travelers" under the guise of academic freedom...
...legend of Conant the Wandering Scholar therefore has little substance. An undergraduate impression--also shared by many alumni and even some faculty members--that is harder to kill is of Conant the Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is also not a part of his character. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife; they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported...