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Also addressing the morning session college admissions problems were B. Alden Thresher, Director of Admissions M.I.T., and Bertram H. Holland, headmaster of Brookline High School...
When the war started, Visser 't Hooft discovered that the smuggling of refugees to freedom combined naturally with the smuggling of information in and out of Holland for the Dutch government-in-exile in London. The apparatus' agents were equipped with microfilm in pens and with clandestine short-wave radio. His two sons remember with displeasure the furtive characters who were constantly turning up at the house, in Geneva; when one arrived, the children were always sent out of the living room-which during the war was the only heated room in the house. In those days...
This question was raised and left unanswered in actuality by the postwar trial of Holland's Han van Meegeren for forging Vermeers-the case that prompted Edith Simon to write this novel. The 44-year-old wife of a University of Edinburgh don, Author Simon was born in Berlin of German parents, did not learn English until her parents moved to Britain when she was 14. Since then, she has published ten books in English, ranging from a distinguished study of the Knights Templars to The Golden Hand, a novel of 14th century England that ranks with the finest...
Over the years Jaeger had gathered manuscripts of Gregory of Nyssa from any scattered sources, and he was working with his students on the great edition. According to his associates, the work--of which eight volumes have already been published or are in the press of Brill of Leiden, Holland--will be pushed to completion...
...sweltering hot on Sunday afternoon at North Hadley Pond. North Hadley, Mass.-the thermometer hit 92° in the shade. But 76 people, ranging from 84-year-old David Babb to seven-month-old Paul Holland, waited on folding chairs ranged along the bank with the 130-year-old Congregational Church behind them. At length, three rowboats rounded the point, each bearing a minister rowed by a teen-aged boy. They stopped in a line, about 35 ft. offshore...