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Died. Dr. Thomas Gilbert Pearson, 69, famed conservationist, ornithologist, president emeritus of the National Audubon Society; editor-in-chief of Birds of America (1917); in Manhattan...
Geraldine Farrar, soprano emeritus, sent OPA General Manager Chester Bowles a few suggestions from Ridgefield, Conn., where she heads a consumer committee of the local rationing board. Her ideas: reduce OPA's printed matter and its "complex reiteration"; reduce the "verbiage to a point of clarity"; have a little faith in the average merchant's honesty and stop prying into his affairs; cut down on exhortations to the consumer; throw out the "paragraph dictators and their Bourbonesque indifference to the attitude of the general public...
Died. Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, 78, physicist, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University; after long illness; in Baltimore. He enrolled at Johns Hopkins in its seventh year, graduated in 1886, became its fourth president (1929-35) and a great authority on aerodynamics...
During reading period, on January 5, Harvard's President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, died...
...secret of Latin teaching, as revealed in the Atlantic Monthly by Harvard's great 72-year-old classicist emeritus, Edward Kennard Rand (who served as an exchange professor at the Sorbonne a decade...