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...months working at the Scrollery, hopes to go back soon, as will Catholic University's Msgr. Patrick W. Skehan and young (26) British Scholar John Strugnell, a Presbyterian. The atmosphere at the Scrollery is probably unique. Says Lutheran Claus-Hunno Hunzinger, of Germany's University of Gottingen: "Every now and then one of us here will discover something new, and will cry out, and everyone will crowd around to discuss and suggest. It's the only situation I know in the study of the humanities where scholars are working in the same field at such close quarters...
...urbane, affable man who reads everything from Rabelais to Runyon, listens to everything from Bach to Berlin, gets along equally well with scholars, bankers, farmers and legislators. The son of a physician, he graduated from K.U. in 1936, and after time out for a year of studying physiology at Gottingen, Germany, finally got his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was top man in his class. By the time he returned to his home town, he had been around enough to be sure of one thing: the Midwest was losing far too many good men to the richer...
Very Small & Very Large. No meteorologist to begin with, Brooklyn-born Irving Langmuir was educated at Columbia University and Gottingen in Germany, settled down to teach chemistry at Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1909 he joined General Electric's Research Laboratory, where he found the freedom he wanted to do research...
...editors that last month they used 393 pictures and 1,044,960 words put out by the service. In one week recently, the Braunschweig Zeitung ran an illustrated spread on U.S. Quakers, the Berlin Telegraf filled its children's page with a visit to the White House, the Gottingen Tageblatt told about U.S. cowboys, and a dozen papers carried a character sketch.of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg...
...Technology put aside his lecture notes and boarded a train for Schenectady, N.Y. After long months in classroom and lab, even a temporary summer job at the new General Electric Research Laboratory looked good to 28-year-old Brooklyn-born Irving Langmuir, metallurgical engineer (Columbia) and Ph.D. in chemistry (Gottingen). But the job was better than that...