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Just how well the Maggie's amateurs had done was apparent last week. The carrier was in at Halifax, and one of the town's art galleries exhibited 48 of the paintings. The crowds were large and just about everybody was impressed. Said one Canadian artist: "Some of those sailors are on the march. They're really going places." Maggie's first art class is breaking up as its members get transferred to new ships. But Commander Law's pupils say they will keep on painting-and spread the habit through the Royal Canadian Navy...
Although a few Red-led hecklers hung about the town to shout "Go home, Acheson," Oxonians appeared hospitably disposed toward Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who, elegant in cap & gown, entered Oxford's Sheldonian Theater in a procession led by an old acquaintance, University Chancellor Lord Halifax, and got an honorary degree, Doctor of Civil...
Bowdoin's Halifax-born Kenneth C. M. Sills, 72, longtime (34 years) president of the college. A former Latin instructor, famed for his fidgets (he used to tear whole handkerchiefs to shreds while teaching), "Casey" Sills mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy "ex-scholar," famed for his love of Dante, for eating (so goes the legend) eleven lobster stews at a sitting, and for liking to run his piny campus just as if Longfellow were still there: "Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls...
...teletyped into the offices of the Herald Tribune on 41 st Street in New York. From there, after an editor has read them with reverent care, the syndicate will siphon the column by airmail and telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann's opinions the balm of certainty...
...Navy. In Halifax, the Canadian navy posted bulletins to remind its sailors that they should say "Aye aye, sir," not "O.K., sir," "Right, sir," "Roger, dodger...