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...intellectual give-and-take between nations, which forms the underlying and unifying theme of this miscellany, is, according to Voltaire, like the fire on our hearth; we fetch it at our neighbor's we light it at home, we hand it on to others, and it belongs to everyone. "Harvard et la France", is in itself proof of the persistence and intensity of this flame. It is not only a fitting testimonial of respect from Joan Sorbon to John Harvard, but a substantial contribution to cultural history...
...National Steel Corp.'s Chairman Ernest Tener Weir is strong for hardboiled, hard-driving executives who, like himself, got their higher education at an open-hearth furnace, not in a classroom. Long has he had his eye on Thomas E. Millsop, who was holding down a job in a steel mill at 15. Last week Mr. Weir upped redhaired, jut-jawed...
Steelman Millsop to the presidency of his Weirton Steel Co., making him, at 37, the youngest chief executive in the business. Steelman Millsop quit an open-hearth job to spend three years as a combat pilot with the Canadian and U. S. air forces. After the War, he barnstormed for a while as a stunt flyer, later returned to steel in the blast-furnace department of Youngstown Sheet & Tube. After a few months he moved over to drive rivets for Standard Tank Car Co., shortly shot up to the production manager's desk...
...William Davis. First he pointed out that the AP is not run for profit, can declare no dividends, then ingeniously argued: "This case falls in the classification of manufacture and not in interstate commerce. News is manufactured over editorial cables, while Bessemer Steel may be manufactured by the open-hearth process. News comes in as raw material and is put in final shape by editorial employes, and then only does its interstate transmission begin. Not until this process is completed does it become an article in interstate commerce. The rapidity with which news is transmitted does not make...
...basis of this bout and of the national contests to be held in April, the Olympic squad, already cut from 20 to 13 after three preliminary meets, will be further reduced to six. Contestants not on the present squad have an opportunity to gain a hearth through this tournament...