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Dean of the Yale Law School is Charles Clark. Last week his younger brother Samuel was dean of an impromptu law school in Washington to explain to graduate lawyers a major change in corporate bankruptcy laws which goes into effect this week. This first general revision in corporate bankruptcy laws in 40 years was passed by Congress last June. Named for its introducer, Representative Walter Chandler of Memphis, the Chandler Act is actually the baby of the SEC, whose Chairman William O. Douglas was made a commissioner in recognition of a three-year study of corporate bankruptcies. One of Bill...
Tourists long ago discovered Calypso, found it fun to pay a few dollars to have themselves described in an impromptu ballad. For nearly five years, Columbia and Decca have recorded Calypso songs in Trinidad, but U. S. enthusiasts could obtain discs only by hunting for them in New York's Harlem. By last week, with four midtown Manhattan shops (Liberty, Center, Marconi and Symphony) carrying them in stock Calypsos sold well to an eager public...
...washed up ''any conflict or dissension between State and Church"-Mussolini's spokesman Virginio Gayda immediately so declared-they were sadly mistaken. On Sunday the Pope walked alone out of his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo (something he had never done before), delivered a vigorous impromptu address to missionary students summering nearby. Said he: "Beware of exaggerated nationalism as of a real curse. ... It is a real curse of divisions, of strife almost amounting...
...heyday of Freudian psychology during the 20s, nearly every intelligentsiac bought at least "one simple popularization of Freud's works and could reel off an impromptu psychoanalysis at the drop of a symbol. With Depression, Freud was more & more often supplanted either by such former disciples as Alfred Butler, who called his adaptation "Individual Psychology," or by Karl Marx. To some observers, Freud's declining popularity among common readers looked permanent...
Friends of vividness in U. S. political oratory wished that Alf Landon had said over his national network at Council Bluffs something as readable as his impromptu remarks at Willis, Kans. two evenings be fore. There, before an audience of 1,500 farmers, Landon of Kansas unhitched his oratorical galluses and cracked...