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...simple outcropping of Grundyism, this was the latest engage ment in an unending conflict between the Austin Legislature and the university, whose tower looks down on the State Capitol. The fact that the university has grown to be one of the four leading Southern institutions,* a big-time contributor of men, training and research to the U.S. war effort (TIME, Nov. 30), has not appeased the legislators. Many Texans find the Austin students effete: to the Aggies (Texas A. & M. College), for example, many strapping Austin characters are "tea-sippers." And the war between the politicos and the professors goes...
Poet and dramatist, student of French culture, Jones is also a critic of note, literary editor of the Transcript during the last two years of its life and frequent contributor to the Saturday Review of Literature. He is now finishing the job of editing the letters of William Makepeace Thackcray, which Gordon was forced to abandon for the Navy last December. Professor Jones hopes to have the edited letters ready by the end of the year, believing they will reval a new Thackeray--the Dr. Johnson of the 19th Century...
...program gives $10 in war stamps and a Junior Encyclopedia Britannica to each question contributor, $57 in war bonds and savings stamps and a set of the Britannica for a question the experts cannot answer...
...response delighted Editor Kirchwey. In four days the 900 letters produced $1,285, with another thousand or so anticipated. One contributor wrote: "I am diverting this [$100] from a war bond subscription as ... the U.S. without the Nation would be like the Founding Fathers without Jefferson...
...donated some $10,000 to war charities in the name of his famed fox terrier, Ch. Nornay Saddler, the War Dog Fund hopes to enlist as many of the nation's 20,000,000 dogs as possible into an honorary K-9 Home Guard. For $1, a contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals ($100) may go so far as to have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia...