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...Holy Task. Dr. Marc Boegner, leading French Protestant and one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches, pledged the support of the World Council's 156 component bodies. Said Isaiah Schwartz, Chief Rabbi of France: "At the present time, when so many clouds are accumulating on the horizon, there is no task more holy and more necessary than that presented...
Died. Dr. Isaiah Bowman, 71, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and No. 1 U.S. geographer; in Baltimore. A precise and methodical geographical explorer, Dr. Bowman advised Woodrow Wilson at Versailles on post-World War I boundaries, served in the same capacity at the 1945 San Francisco Conference...
...Isaiah Bowman '05, University Overseer and president emeritus of Johns Hopkins, died of a heart attack Friday in Baltimore, at the age of 71. The noted geographer retired a year ago from John Hopkins after serving as its head for 14 years...
Many thanks to that valiant knight of the anti-bugaboos, Philosopher Isaiah Berlin, for tearing one of the first rents in that facade of misdirected idealism-social consciousness [TIME...
...first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World War II, broad, black-haired Isaiah Berlin developed two bad habits: he was always late to work (he likes to sleep until 10:30), and always the last to appear at a dinner party. No one minded. His flashing dinner talk never failed to charm Washington hostesses and capital pundits. And his brilliant reports on U.S. thinking and doing made him Winston Churchill's most penetrating official observer of wartime America...