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Died. Bradford Brooks Locke, 54, executive vice president of the $40,000,000 Church Pension Fund (for retired Episcopalian clergymen), one of the most candidly critical but most popular citizens (though he was a Harvardman) of Princeton, N.J.; after an operation; in Princeton...
...grateful Harvardman Lamont, President Conant replied with "profound gratitude. . . . The Harvard Corporation will take steps immediately to raise an additional $1,500,000 [for its new library...
...Almanac's first 54 years its proprietor was Robert Bailey Thomas, a Massachusetts stationer. For its last five, it has belonged to 45-year-old Robb Sagen-dorph, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Harvardman ('22) who lives rustically at Dublin, N.H. During the war, while he worked for the Office of Censorship, he kept his hardy perennial going by working on it nights and Sundays. It was worth his while: the 1946 print order is for 450,000 copies, almost double its previous printing...
Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts' Indian-nosed Harvardman (where he was a member of Hasty Pudding and Porcellian), took a forthright stand for Indian pudding as the nation's prize dish-"sweet . . . nourishing . . . sends you away . . . with a satisfied feeling." Breaking home-grown-dish precedent, he declared candidly that his favorite recipe was not handed down in his family for generations. Said he: "We just found it in a cookbook...
Sexy Females. Wonder Woman is written by "Charles Moulton," who is really a psychologist named William Moulton Marston, famed as inventor of the "lie detector." Harvardman Marston (A.B., LL.B., Ph.D.) has a theory that in the next hundred years the U.S. will drift toward an Amazonian matriarchy. He invented Wonder Woman to educate his fellow men to their fate. Says he: "Men actually submit to women now, they do it on the sly with a sheepish grin because they're ashamed of being ruled by weaklings. Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they...