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...first thing that John A. Hannah did when he became president of Michigan State College at East Lansing in 1941 was to order the door of his office taken down and carted away. A friendly, floppy-gaited man, he wanted everybody to feel free to walk right in and talk to him. Tilted back in his swivel chair at his cluttered desk, he would listen patiently to laggard students, troubled facultymen, Michigan farmers and taxpayers. The purpose of a land-grant college, he said, should be "service to all people." Last week, after nine years, M.S.C. had reason to know...
...Married. Hannah Williams Kahn Dempsey, 37, onetime musicomedienne (1937's Hooray for What? with Ed Wynn), and Thomas J. Monaghan, 38, nightclub entertainer; she for the third time (No. 1: Roger Wolff Kahn, son of the late Financier Otto; No. 2: Heavyweight Restaurateur William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey), he for the second; in Los Angeles...
Beefy Philip P. Hannah, secretary-treasurer of the Ohio A.F.L., followed through with a strong speech for withholding U.S. technical and financial aid from countries which limited political and industrial freedom. "We do not care," said Hannah, "whether a sister country's regime is conservative, liberal, democratic, socialistic, oligarchic, libertarian or collectivism We only ask that it grant . . . that wide range of freedom which is associated with true civilization itself...
Performing will be Miss Nancy Trickey, soprano; Miss Eunice Alberts, contralto; Robert Brink, violin; Eleftherios Eleftherakis, viola; William Waterhouse, violin; Miss Hannah Sherman, violoncello; and Pinkham, harpsichord...
Local Girl. In Woolston, England, Mrs. Hannah Lane, accused by police of setting fire to her house, tried to clarify her motive: "I don't like Woolston...