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...Will Durant and Bertrand Russell engaged in a debate at Harvard. "American colleges are all right," Durant said as he relaxed, afterwards. "I'm glad I went to one myself." He told an audience "Civilization and humanity certainly have advanced." Russell asserted that "Examinations are necessary but they should not be hypercritical inquisitions, but instead be digests of books to be read and criticized in a helpful way by the instructor...
...embroiled in a hot fight centering on Governor John Fine (see below). Michigan's 26 uncommitted are waiting with much more patience and internal harmony. Quietly, the Michigan delegates may have made the political news of the week when they met Sunday afternoon at Flint's Durant Hotel. They chose Detroit's George A. Shaffer, a resolutely uncommitted delegate (TIME, June 23), for their delegation's member on the convention credentials committee...
...photographer who makes his living taking pictures of incoming ships from the bridge for a studio that peddles prints to crews and passengers. Fifteen hundred feet away, Wells saw a woman climb over the rail of the bridge and stand hesitantly on a girder. She was Mrs. E. Noel Durant, 61, a retired banker's wife who had been brooding over her health...
Wells, camera at the ready, began running toward her, but a passing motorist, Cyrus A. Samuel, beat him to the scene. "Don't jump!" cried Samuel. Replied Mrs. Durant: "Nobody can do anything. I'm very ill." But as Samuel kept pleading, she seemed undecided. According to Samuel, she grew noticeably more nervous as she caught sight of Wells, aiming his aerial camera with its long-distance lens. "Is he going to take my picture?" she cried. Samuel reassured her: "He's an engineer, holding a measuring box." But Wells continued snapping his shutter, and Samuel said...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Diana Lynn in Memoirs of Aimee Durant...