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Weaker Axis? It was generally conceded that Great Britain had arranged the Yugoslav rapprochement with Russia. Russia's position gave the Allies one patch of comfort in the mottled quilt of European power politics last week. German occupation of Denmark and Norway, making the Baltic once more a German lake, was hardly calculated to increase the security of Leningrad, for which Russia has just fought one costly war. Since Germany went into Norway, shipment of Russian materials to Germany has slowed down, through inefficiency, misroutings, losses and other deeply regretted causes. Russia has been very courteous in its dealings...
...Dealers drew some comfort from the defeat of pompous, unpopular anti-New Deal Senator Edward Burke by popular Governor Roy L. Cochran in the Democratic primary. Burke had antagonized the farmers by voting against parity payments; Labor, by attacking NLRB; Czechs and Poles, by lauding Hitler; Germans, by voting for repeal of the arms embargo. The Republicans had turned down a New Dealer within their own ranks, Arthur J. Weaver, in favor of Grainman Hugh Butler of Omaha, who probably won because he spent enough money to get a professional organization. The Republicans confidently expected to beat Governor Cochran with...
...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...
Over the protests of undergraduates and Board of Managers,"Uncle Billy" Comfort, 65, announced last spring that he would resign his office at the close of the current college year. Last week his successor was named...
...Board chose another Haverford graduate (1915), born on the campus during President Comfort's senior year: Felix Muskett Morley, Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes Scholar, foreign correspondent, author and able editorial writer of the Washington Post. His father, Dr. Frank Morley, taught mathematics at Haverford and Johns Hopkins. His two brothers, Author Christopher (Kitty Foyle) and Book Publisher Frank, were also Rhodes Scholars-an alltime U. S. record for one family...