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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Onetime chairman of the Yale chapter of the A. A. U. P. is Professor Yandell Henderson, able physiologist, expert on noxious gases, no fearer of publicity. Born in Kentucky 58 years ago, graduated from Yale in 1895, he is a somewhat unkempt savant, fond of his pipe, his British tweeds, his tennis. Professor Henderson developed gas-masks used by U. S. troops in the World War, has done much research in automobile exhaust gases, in the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation. Year ago he wrote an article for the Yale Alumni Weekly in dispraise of "industrializing education...
...Expert Red wreckers had placed dozens of small liquid air cartridges in the towering granite walls of Moscow's largest church, the Cathedral of the Christ Redeemer (capacity, 10,000 worshippers), a towering edifice with five domes dominating the Moscow skyline...
...sharp critique of overexpanded U. S. universities a year ago was Dr. Abraham Flexner's Universities: American, English, German (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930). Critic Flexner, a onetime Carnegie Foundation expert, onetime (1925-28) director of the division of studies and medical education of the Rockefeller General Education Board, specially denounced Columbia and the University of Chicago for their widely advertised home-study courses. Dr. Flexner's ideal college is a sober academe where only the wisest and most serious may study. Under his direction such a place will soon rise in New Jersey: the Institute for Advanced Study...
...Miss Bourke-White, expert camerawoman traveling free-lance with Governmental blessing, took 800 photographs in Soviet Russia. Artistically in love with her work, she took great pains, gave none. Happy posers said "Thank you" when her shutter clicked; one woman even wept for joy. The Russians "consider the artist an important factor in the Five-Year Plan, and the photographer the artist of the Machine Age." They appreciated Bourke-White. Starting as their photographer she soon became their comrade...
...Lenz makes an opening bid of two in any suit, he invites (without compelling) his partner to make an answering bid. Culbertson's initial bid of two is a command for partner to respond, no matter how weak partner's hand may be. Here is what each expert feels he must have in his hand for opening suit bids of one, two or three: Bid Lenz Culbertson 1 2½ tricks 2½ tricks No difference 2 3 or 3½ tricks 5 or 5½tricks Culbertson force 3 or 10 tricks 8 tricks Lenz force