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...Canadian readers were following the intellectual problem of fictional Arthur Tyndall; as he learned more about Toronto University, they learned too. Warden Tyndall was the hero of a new novel by a front-ranking Canadian novelist and short-story writer, 45-year-old Morley Callaghan (They Shall Inherit the Earth, Such Is My Beloved). Actually, Tyndall's purpose (and Callaghan's) was to do more than unravel the character of Toronto: it was to raise money...
...Administration on Capitol Hill, and had stuck staunchly by Harry Truman in the dark days before Philadelphia. This week, for such services loyally rendered, Scott Lucas, 56, was chosen new Majority Leader of the Senate. (Tennessee's ancient Senator Kenneth McKellar, who became president pro tern, will inherit a purely honorary role and the use of a Cadillac limousine...
...Game. One of the wealthiest women in the U.S., and perhaps the most hated, restless Cissie left behind her a fortune of perhaps$40 million - not counting the Times-Herald and her huge interest in the McCormick-Patterson Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News. Who would inherit all this? The first in line: her daughter, Felicia Gizycka and Granddaughter Ellen Cameron Pearson Arnold, child of Columnist Drew Pearson and apple of Cissie's eye. But nobody would inherit her deadly hates...
...real questions for the Democrats now were who would inherit the receivership of the party, and who would be charged with the job of rebuilding for 1952? Those questions would not be decided at the convention. But rebellious Southerners were still threatening to hold their long-planned Birmingham meeting to discuss the future ownership of the party. That new struggle would occupy the efforts of wrangling Democratic politicos for the next four years...
...produced such Englishmen as Matthew Arnold (Thomas' son), Lewis Carroll, Rupert Brooke, Neville Chamberlain and the new head master himself, , who as head boy of the school in 1917 occupied the famed "Tom Brown's Study," alongside the Head Master's House lie will now inherit. He also won his colors for Rugby and cricket...