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...Less fatigued than Horizon's conscientious Editor Cyril Connolly, TIME editors sanguinely observe that pessimism among editors is not infrequently a sign of editorial health. With tongue only lightly in cheek, TIME applauds the shrewd observation of Harvard's late President Eliot: "Things seem to be going fairly well, now that a spirit of pessimism prevails in all departments...
...Westgate-on-the-Sea, where the 63-year-old prelate was recuperating from gout. He had been Archbishop of Canterbury for only two and a half years. Speculation about his successor, to be appointed by the King (on the advice of the Prime Minister), centered around two names: Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, 69, Archbishop of York, and Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, Bishop of London. But one thing was certain: there is no one else quite like William Temple in the whole Anglican Communion. London's Tory Times and Communist Daily Worker mourned him equally...
...Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, Brit ain's bubbling, goat-bearded ex-pacifist philosopher and mainstay of the BBC "Brains Trust" (British equivalent of In formation Please), was invited to speak at Cambridge University on international affairs, was greeted with tear and smoke bombs by student rioters who aimed to prevent him from speaking. Reason: in 1933, Joad had spoken at Cambridge in defense of the Oxford Union's once-famed resolution-"Not to Fight for King and Country...
Wendell Willkie, Hanson W. Baldwin, William C. Bullitt and others who have been slapped down by the Russian press were joined by unexpected company last week. Soundly slapped down by Izvestia were British ex-Pacifist philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the Better World) and Harold Laski, British leftist economist, friend of Russia and sometime White House guest. Said Izvestia: "Meddling advisers." Their offense: signing a British National Peace Council petition urging a "strategy of mercy" toward Germany...
...Fellowship winners in addition to Miss Henderson are: Gilbert R. Barnhart, Washington, D.C. H. Howard Goldin '36, Washington, D.C., Associate Economist, Federal Communications Commission; Cyril McC. Henderson, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Harold L. Seligman, Washington, D.C., Junior Economist, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; William J. Smith, Durham, North Carolina, and Paul N. Yivisaker, Mankato, Minnesota, staff member of the Council of Intergovernmental Relations...