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Santa Claus, in the form of PBH superintendent "Jock" Cockburn will take down the Christmas orders of 90 University Nursery School students this week. Santa made a surprise visit last week to let some of the junior undergraduates do their shopping early, and although Miss Winnifred Lydon, director of the nursery, fears that some of the older children may know "Jock" from PBH, the transactions came off smoothly...
This characterization of the British Broadcasting Corp. appeared in Claud Cockburn's leftist London newsletter, The Week. British radio listeners might quarrel with it but few of them would deny that something ought to be done about civil-servantish BBC. Last week, as the time for renewal of BBC's Government charter neared, British voices spoke up and said so. BBC countered with what amounted to a top-drawer shakeup...
...Robert L. Calhoun, professor of Historical Theology at Yale, has been appointed William Belden Noble Lecturer at Harvard for the 1942-43 academic year, the University announced yesterday. Dr. Calhoun will fill a position which such eminent men as Dr. John H. Cockburn, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, and William Temple, former Archbishop of York, now Archbishop of Canterbury, have held in past seasons...
Europe" (presumably Finland). Editor Cockburn, also on the staff of London's Communist newsorgan the Daily Worker, tried to suggest, even as the Kremlin's propagandists have in Moscow, that Finland was aided and abetted by Great Britain in her "aggressions" against the Soviet Union...
...Latest Cockburn revelation is a story about Britain's wooing of Italy. According to him, Benito Mussolini wants, along with big territorial items, $360,000,000 in cash for joining the Allies. This story was cut by British censors in its transmission to the U. S. Not tampered with at all was a widely publicized (and not particularly Cockburn) version of the attempted Hitler assassination, which ended with the conclusion that the assassins were "near-Göring bomb layers"-i.e., accomplices of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, successor to the Führer...