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...column called Words to Live By appears each week in This Week. Authors, philosophers, statesmen, educators and plain citizens choose and comment on quotations, famous or obscure, as a steering gear for readers in "these rudderless days." For No. 22 in the series, Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, president of St. John's College, last week plucked a 2,000-year-old thought from Aristotle: "All men desire by nature to know." Wrote Barr...
That was in 1937. The investigation made Minnie famous, but didn't turn her head. She stayed on the job (with the exception of a six-months' cruise to South America on a company tanker), trained many of her 100 offspring for ratting jobs in Bayonne homes and factories. Recently Minnie got a raise, a 37½% boost to cover increased living costs...
...Alexis Smith, always present in the crucial moments, floats in through the door as Cary triumphantly sings "you, you, you" and goes into the chorus of "Night and Day." This is the Warner Brothers' penetrating conception of how Cole Porter, on whose life the picture is debased, wrote his famous song...
...otherwise wide-eyed feature article in "Time" magazine last week, Mr. Conant was by implication charged with retreating from his previous liberal position under pressure from the alumni and the Corporation. If that liberal position was once defined in his now-famous essay "Wanted: American Radicals," then Mr. Conant's chapel talk represents a reaffirmation of that position and a logical extension of it in terms of the specific issues of 1946. Mr. Conant has not retreated. He remains in the forefront of those who believe that the American promise can only be realized through faith in a dynamic liberalism...
Freshmen and other newcomers to the University will this afternoon at 2 o'clock in Sanders Theatre get their first chance to see and hear Dick Harlow, the Crimson's nationally famous football coach, who has guided the University eleven for the last eight years...