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Disagreeing with Homans, Arthur Smithies, professor of Economics, insisted that creating a better world and not pure knowledge, must be the sole end of scholarship; arguing that statistics on social ills will not cure the ills, Smithies said, "I, don't see how a society that knows too much about itself can function well...
Moscow had sent Professor Sergei Davidenkov to attend Stalin's "very dear Comrade Thorez." Davidenkov disagreed with the French doctors, said that he would personally guarantee a cure in a Moscow clinic. Thorez' wife, Communist Deputy Jeannette Vermeersch, took the hint and publicly asked the Soviet to treat her husband. The Red Foreign Ministry made the request official, the French government agreed and Thorez...
Married. Harry Blackstone (real name: Harry Boughton), 65, famed magician of vaudeville's old rabbit-out-of-the-hat, woman-sawing school; and Elizabeth Ross, 49, a wealthy widow he met in Biloxi, Miss, while both were taking an asthma cure; he for the third time, she for the second; in Chicago...
Occasionally men come to the Advanced Management Program to cure certain personal business problems. In the spring session last year, an executive in a Brazilian branch of an American firm enthusiastically reported that the program had succeeded in teaching him to use the English language skillfully again. He had let his English lapse while using Portuguese for an extended period...
...Damned." And so, one day in 1899, at a meeting of educators, Butler proposed his cure for the chaos: set up a central examination board for all the colleges. Harvard's stately President Charles W. ("Five-Foot Shelf") Eliot promptly seconded the suggestion, and the board was born...