Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilbur A. Cowett '45 won the James Gerdon Bennett prize for his essay on "Civil Liability of the Bueaurocracy for Unilateral Administrative Acts." The income from the Philo Sherman Bennett fund was awarded to Sumner L. Feidberg '45 for his paper on "Chain Stores...
...continental event," pontificated President Perón. Brazil's press had almost nothing to say. A Brazilian proposal for joint mediation in Paraguay's stalemated civil war stalled. The tired topic of a wheat-for-rubber trade treaty stood where it had before-on the shelf...
Both the new headmasters are practicing partisans of the kind of muscular Christianity for which the independent schools have long been famed. St. John prepped at Choate (six St. Johns have taught there), played hockey for Yale, was ordained an Episcopal priest, served as a Navy lieutenant commander (civil affairs) in Europe. He returned to Choate to take up "teaching and preaching...
...serves as national chairman and Charles Sellers '45 organizes in the field. Today's ground-floor nucleus will make or break its great chance to capture mass support tomorrow by the means it devises to implement its ideals. From the current program embracing labor rights, federal aid to education, civil liberties, and universal military training two sorts of approach can develop: the agitation tactic which alienates the men it should most woo simply because of what it is (making smalltime political capital from colossal issues) or the militant but intelligent approach which seeks to offer something concrete to the solution...
Helicopters, often touted as the best hope of timid commuters, had a bad fortnight. Three of the windmill aircraft cracked up like any common airplane. A Bell helicopter broke up in the air and fell into Lake Union in Seattle, killing the pilot and a Civil Aeronautics Administration man. Two days later, Coast Guard Pilot David Gershowitz was showing off his Sikorsky HO51 before 250 high-school kids at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, when he swooped too low, pulled up too quickly. The tail rotor hit the ground and broke off. The helicopter belly-crashed in orange flames...