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When Columbia University honored eleven wartime military leaders with honorary doctorates at a special convocation on Feb. 21, 1947,* one of the best known of the names was overseas as military panjandrum of occupied Japan. Setting the books in order, stately General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, whose son Arthur is a sophomore at Columbia College, dropped in on University President
...Lazarus Agagianian (pronounced ah-gah-jahn-yan) was born 62 years ago in what is now Soviet Georgia, is a member of the Uniate group of Armenian Christians.* Agagianian was so bright as a child that his instructors in Tiflis sent him to Rome when he was only eleven to study at the Urban College of the Propagation of the Faith. The college rejected him because of his youth, but before he was sent home little Lazarus was permitted to join a group audience with St. Pope Pius X (canonized in 1954), who noticed him and predicted: "This small Armenian...
Recalled to Rome in 1921, Father Agagianian became vice rector (later rector) of the Pontifical Armenian College. He added to his store of languages-he is now fluent in eleven, including English, Russian, French, German. Italian, Latin, classical Greek and Hebrew, and understands, but does not speak Arabic...
...overseas possessions. De Gaulle remained carefully vague as to whether or not Algeria would also get "federal" status under his new order. But he was already showing a willingness to make major concessions to restore peace in North Africa. France promised to withdraw all troops within a month from eleven garrison posts scattered through the south and east of Morocco, and seems to be prepared to evacuate all its bases in Tunisia save the great naval installations at Bizerte (as proposed by the Anglo-American "good offices" team, which can expect no credit...
Appalled by this razing of the nation's architectural heritage, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this month teamed up with the eleven-year-old National Trust for Historic Preservation and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to spotlight some outstanding pieces of architecture worth saving. Examples were found in almost every section of the U.S., turned up in out-of-the-way places, took surprising forms (including a jail). Items: ¶ The East Front of the U.S. Capitol (TIME, June u, 1956 et seq.), the traditional backdrop for presidential inaugurations. Architects and historians (keep it as it is) are lined...