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...charge, Brahman Moonje read into the record the explicit testimony of a white woman eyewitness, Miss Madeline Slade, daughter of a British Admiral, disciple of St. Gandhi. What Dr. Moonje read has just been published in the U. S. by Simon & Schuster on pages 158-160 of Philosopher Will Durant's The Case for India...
...Instructor in Economics; Edward Hastings Chamberlin, Assistant Professor of Economics; James Wilkinson Miller '28, Instructor in Philosophy; Michael Karpovich, Lecturer on History; Charles Washburn Putnam '11, Instructor in Government; William Ellery Sedgwick '22, Instructor in English; Theodore Spencer, Instructor in English; John Milton Potter '26, Instructor in History; Robert Durant Feild, Instructor in Fine Arts...
...best-sellers is that, with the exception of the popularity of certain novels in the new Bonibooks series, the undergraduates' interest seems for the most part focused on non-fiction books that are unually pooh-poohed in academic circles. Such old standbys as Wells' "Outline of History" and Durant's "Story of Philosophy" still stand near the top of the list, although Dimnet's "Art of Thinking" is at the moment the outstanding reprint success in Cambridge...
...Mathis is the fourth largest seller in France. Durant will retail it at around $500, hence compete with the American Austin. Testimony to the popularity of torn-thumb cars was the report last week that American Austin Car Co. Inc., with normal capacity of 60,000 a year, had 184,000 unfilled orders on hand June...
...That Mr. Durant should become active again at the age of 69 is no surprise to the industry. Of Bull Durant legends abound. It is said that he persuaded G. M. directors to vote $100,000 for research on a refrigerator "just so they'd have more to worry about." It was he who, through John Jacob Raskob, then secretary to Pierre Samuel du Pont, interested the "Wilmington crowd" in G. M. He is one of the Federal Reserve's oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned...