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...agreed to its principles. The many complications were referred to the new Assistant Deans of the Faculty, W. C. Graustein and Paul H. Buck. Before his tragic death in an accident, Graustein had worked carefully on the plan and it came to bear his name. Dean of the Faculty Ferguson, who had agreed to hold an Administrative post only during this stormy interim period, soon resigned his position. With the promotion of Paul Buck to the job, the Walsh-Sweezy affair became history and Conant found that he had made his most successful appointment to the Deanship...
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS IN CHRISTIAN ART, by George Ferguson (346 pp.; Oxford; $10), explains the symbolism of the great Renaissance religious paintings so clearly as to make many of the world's best-known pictures take on fresh meaning...
...HARRY FERGUSON...
...hold official leadership positions in the Senate. Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, was the chief strategist in the move to soften censure, and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, president pro tempore, stood shoulder to shoulder with Dirksen; Michigan's Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Policy Committee, and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, whip, were in on the consultations. While McCarthy was vilifying Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Watkins, the G.O.P. leaders who drafted Watkins for the censure job turned their backs...
Wild Blue Yonder. In Milwaukee, police looked for William Ferguson, lecturer (at $1 a head) on the wonders of Mars, after he 1) tried to sell Policewoman Mary Smeaton a brain-relaxing helmet and other souvenirs he said he brought back from his trip to the planet in 1947; 2) told her she would return to her home planet Saturn after 14,000 more years; 3) rhapsodized about Martian food, which the body absorbs without the need for elimination, and Martian water, which can be swum in without getting...