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...university, 2) the backing of the rich Columbia Foundation of San Francisco, 3) the advice of No. 1 Stanfordian Herbert Hoover, and 4) the conviction that big things can be done in international education. Dean Kefauver is the quarterback of a hard-driving Stanford educational backfield (Paul Hanna, Isaac James Quillen, Paul Leonard) whose energy is well known in professional pedagogical circles and seems bound to register soon on a much wider audience...
...Died. Isaac Deforest ("Ike") White, 78, long the late New York World's star crime reporter; in Syracuse, N.Y. He tracked down wife-killers, trapped oyster pirates, outwitted Yucatan slavers. From the remains of an unknown "anarchist" who bombed himself and Financier Russell Sage's office to pieces, White chose a button (detectives chose a head), identified the bomber as a Boston broker...
...Neil O'Brien remembers had a lyrically warm, intimate, unregimented spirit that was missing at the Music Hall. The blackface tradition, in one form or another, dates from the colonial days when whites first saw and imitated Negro entertainers. As early as 1769, during a Manhattan performance of Isaac Bickerstaff's comic opera The Padlock, an actor named Lewis Hallam got drunk on the stage in his role of a Negro slave and brought the house down. This eventually led to "the novel, grotesque, original and surpassingly melodious Ethiopian Band entitled the Virginia Minstrels...
...Principal Albert L. Isaac: "He is loved and respected by his boys...
...intimate kind, for in battle each soldier is alone. To Private Alvan Mendelsohn it was a foxhole on a hilltop beyond El Guettar, reading a magazine when the shelling got heavy by day and at night lying there waiting to know if his number was coming up. To Corporal Isaac Lorenzo Moroni Parker it was the sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private First Class Michael Scotto di Clementi it was digging a slit trench beside the colonel's tent in an oasis and wondering if anybody remembered Micky Scott of Our Gang comedies. To Major General Terry Allen...