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...aims at filtering ideas and opinions from the top, through union leaders, intellectuals, government officials. Its lifeblood is a steady stream of free literary contributions from such heavyweights, high-priced or otherwise, as Hunter College President George Shuster, New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook, John Chamberlain, Max Eastman, Ferdinand Lundberg, the New York Times's Henry Hazlitt, Brooklyn College President Harry Gideonse, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Leslie Buell, William Green, Matthew Woll, Walter Reuther- some of whom would be outraged if they were called Socialists or leftists...
Charles H. McIlwain, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in American History in 1924, has been appointed to the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University, it was announced Tuesday. He will probably leave within the next two weeks, although the exact date of his departure is unknown. McIlwain's specific functions at Oxford have not yet been revealed...
...mind ever since he retreated to his swamp home 13 months ago, the owl-eyed, trap-mouthed head of tobacco-juicy Gene Talmadge briefly raised itself to the light last week. The pseudo-folksy ex-Governor of Georgia made the papers by rising before the Lions Club of little Eastman, Ga. (pop. 3,311) and plugging the election of General Douglas MacArthur to the Presidency-as a Democrat. Then the No. 1 Has-Been of Georgia politics subsided again with a faint snapping of galluses, having once more done nobody a great deal of good...
...dignified, Belgian-born Baekeland invented Bakelite (oxybenzyl-methylenglycolanhydride) - the first successful, noninflammable, synthetic solid. He got his start in 1880 when, as the youngest student at the University of Ghent, he developed Velox paper, a photographic milestone which killed tintypes and netted him a reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation of nitrate of lead, industrial electrolysis of alkali chlorids...
...Exhaustion" put Office of Defense Transportation Boss Joseph Eastman into a Washington hospital last week. His deputy, Brigadier General Charles D. Young, could not have been in much better shape. As the week wore on he struggled with Government bureaus, railroads and labormen to meet a manpower shortage estimated at 100,000 workers; ODT had to suspend 68 Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains to ease the manpower pinch on essential freight traffic. But the General also had to cope with the biggest glut of strictly nonessential Florida sun worshipers in history...