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...great scholars met last week to celebrate the 50th birthday of one of the western world's youngest and most vigorous great universities. The University of Chicago could hardly match the ancient names and traditions of learning represented by its guests from Cambridge, Oxford, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dublin, Edinburgh. But the delegates had come to honor not age but youth. At lusty Chicago they found the civilized spirit still green and hopeful...
...Free Press is not so enviable as its editor. Born in Edinburgh, educated in the U.S. (at Missouri's Park College), young Scotsman Dick got typhoid fever and was told by a doctor that sea air might keep his hair from falling out. So he shipped on a windjammer to Hong Kong, drifted to the Manila Times. Later he returned to the U.S., but after a freezing winter in Manhattan he went back to Manila for good. Said he: "I can make a living in New York if I have to-but I don't have...
...flimsy sheet of waxed paper from which, for the first time, prints could be reproduced. Talbot called his new kind of photograph the calotype. Taking Talbot's idea, Hill got technical assistance from a young chemist named Robert Adamson, set up a photographic studio in the heart of Edinburgh...
...clear to everybody that Bertie was "backward, frivolous, vain." They tried sending him to Edinburgh and Oxford, to Canada, to the U.S. He planted a chestnut tree at George Washington's grave, and on one occasion, according to rumor, eluded his guardians "and indulged his abounding manhood in the bagnios of New York...
Stevenson's story of the dual nature of man and the tendency of evil to triumph over good was no instant gift of a dream. It began in his childhood home in Edinburgh. There were a bookcase and a chest of drawers in his room made by a notorious split personality called Deacon Brodie-a respectable cabinetmaker by day who used his nights for thievery. The author never forgot the stories his nurse made up for him around the Deacon's furniture. These, together with a Frenchman's treatise on the subconscious, which he read years later...