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...manufacture steel drums, Mrs. Van Leer decided to indulge an expensive but interesting hobby: retelling Old Testament history. She persuaded students and professors at Jerusalem's Hebrew University to do historical research, got Israeli journalists to act as rewrite men, signed up another ex-Netherlander, Yaakov Zutan, to edit the paper. By last week the six-month-old English edition had reached a circulation of 5,000, including a subscription from Rome's Vatican Library...
Though his presence at press conferences occasionally causes officials to clam up, most Washington newsmen bear him no ill will. They cheerfully fill him in when he misses a story. Gossiping colleagues and Government officials rarely edit their conversation just because Todd is around. He is still a member in good standing of the National Press Club, though no longer welcome at the Overseas Writers. (He also dropped out of a car pool after learning that the FBI was investigating his traveling companions.) Though he files several thousand words a day, Todd does not do much talking. Unlike the Secretaries...
...committee responsible for directing the final edition of Signature will work with the regular board. Joan Braverman '50, ex-president of Student Government, and Sylvia Rice '50, ex-vice-president, will edit the literary material. Jean O'Brien '51, ex-treasurer, will handle business matters...
...Author Commager is that rare, ebullient campus commentator who seems ready for anything. Besides paying his careful respects to a busy teaching schedule, he has found time to write half a dozen books, edit a few others, review at length whatever comes to hand, scale the Sunday magazine sections under such banners as "What Makes for Presidential Greatness" and "Great Mysteries of World War II." Not since Yale's late, loquacious professor of English literature, Billy Phelps, has the normally reserved academic world sent forth so exuberant and confident a guide to intellectual taste...
...Business Roundup, conducted a column (Books & Ideas), wrote editorials and such notable politico-economic articles as "Socialism by Default," an analysis of the U.S. drift toward collectivism. He was also coauthor, with LIFE's Charles J. V. Murphy in 1945, of The Lives of Winston Churchill, and helped edit and summarize conclusions of the first Harriman report on Europe (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947) and the Hoover commission reports...