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Many scientists, calculating by the rate of decay of radioactive materials in rocks, have figured that the earth is about two billion years old. This week, in a report issued by the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Edinburgh's Professor Arthur Holmes had a new estimate. Two billion years, said Holmes, is a "conservative minimum." Something nearer 3,350,000,000 years, he added cautiously, "is unlikely to be seriously wrong...
...educator (founder of The MacJannet American School at St. Cloud, France) reported: "Our school was at the crossroads of the world and a number of our students [who studied TIME] in those early days have since appeared in headlines in TIME. The Duke of Edinburgh, as the little exiled Prince Philip of Greece, Princess Anne de Bourbon (she was more of a tomboy than a student), John Eisenhower...
...thought. But he had signed to sing in Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in April and in Beethoven's Ninth with the Philadelphia Orchestra in May. Almost closed was a deal to sing in The Marriage of Figaro at the Edinburgh Festival this summer...
Woman's Rights. In Edinburgh, after due consideration, the Lord Justice ruled that because Kathleen Love threw her engagement ring in her fiance's face, it did not follow that she intended to break off the engagement: ". . . To say that the return of a ring by a woman was, in all cases, an irrevocable step would be to deprive the female sex of one of its most cherished privileges, and literature and the stage of one of their most hackneyed situations...
...Edinburgh, Scotland