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...Stafford's rise and Beaverbrook's fall there was a curious political paradox. Though Lord Beaverbrook played an infinitely more important role than Sir Stafford in improving Anglo-Soviet relations, the Beaver had to make way for the people's choice. But Canadian-born M.P. Garfield Weston (a biscuit tycoon) had another version: "We are told that Lord Beaverbrook has gone because he has asthma. But he has had asthma for 20 years. ... I believe he has left because he had become sick unto death of Government committees...
Awarded the highest honor open to students in the Law School, Garfield H. Horn '40, has been elected president of the Harvard Law Review for the next year...
...Shows Inc. will foster plays; the Citizens Committee, vaudeville and musicals. Results: U.S.O. will give Camp Shows Inc. energetic Eddie Dowling and a $645,000 budget. Buzzing around the Caribbean bases last week was an Army planeload of Camp Shows talent: Funnymen Laurel & Hardy, Singer Jane Pickens, Actor John Garfield, Dancers Mitzi Mayfair and Ray Bolger. Producer Dowling expects to send Broadway hits, cast by George Abbott, Vinton Freedley, other Broadway producers. Most ambitious Camp Shows idea: sending a stock company to Iceland for an eight-to ten-week stay...
...Machine parts made of powdered metals. Says Electrochemist Colin Garfield Fink of Columbia University: "The basic idea is simple. Fill any mold with a metal powder. Apply pressure, and increase the temperature to a certain point. ... A hard metal object is promptly produced." Advantages: speed, economy and the opportunity to make parts of a single object out of different metals, molded together...
Last week Ambassador Clarence Gauss (rhymes with boss) sailed on the President Garfield from San Francisco, bound for Chungking. Like every U.S. Ambassador, like the members of the innumerable U.S. missions in Europe and Asia, his task had narrowed to one main aim: to prevent the Axis encirclement...