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...office at Collier's and shuffled through the week's receipts: more than 2,000 roughs. (Out of 15,000 mailed in each year by unknown hopefuls who just know they can draw, Collier's finds only three good enough to buy.) Said mustached, soft-spoken Gurney Williams, 42: "The other day I found myself staring at the millionth cartoon submitted to me since I became humor editor here. I wish it could have been fresh and original. Instead, it showed several ostriches with their heads buried in the sand. Two others stood nearby. Said...
...only man on Collier's who also does the same job for its sister publications, American and Woman's Home Companion, Gurney Williams okays 30 to 50 cartoons a week, pays $40 to $150 apiece. His new boss, Walter Davenport (TIME, July 22), doesn't see them until they are in print. To keep his contributors on the beam Williams edits a galley-proof monthly called Gagazine (circ. 150), full of chitchat, advice and an occasional gag too rich for Collier's blood. His third updating of the famed Collier's Collects Its Wits album...
...floor of the Senate to thunder his objections: "I don't want to draft troops to take part in a civil war in China." The little knot of bitter-enders took up the cry. But the Senate, urged on by South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney, resolutely beat back a last desperate attempt to wreck the draft law, approved (6940-8) a one year's extension to replace the stop-gap bill which expires July...
...McLean chair, being awarded to Professor Brinton, is one of the oldest in the University; its previous holders include Jared Spark, 1815, also a president of the College, and Ephraim Whitman Gurney '52, for whom the Gurney chair is named. The last McLean Professor was William Scott Ferguson, who became an emeritus last spring...
Still in the throes of re-conversion, the History Department filled two of its empty chairs last week by the appointment of Clarence Crane Brinton '19 to the McLean Professorship in Ancient and Modern History, and Frederick Merk, chairman of the Department, as Gurney Professor of History and Political Science...