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Last week three professors employed respectively by California, Washington and Stanford Universities informed the people of Oregon that their Chancellor of Higher Education, William Jasper Kerr, was totally incapable of educational leadership, that his election was a "stupendous blunder" in the first place, that their State University would never have a "healthy and normal life" until they got rid of him. This blast, a monstrous piece of impertinence on its face, was delivered by the three professors as representatives of that extraordinary organization, the American Association of University Professors...
...brother made a find in a dry arroyo that brought Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts on the run from the Smithsonian Institution. Beneath 20 feet of ancient soil, Dr. Roberts laid bare what must have been a teeming Ice Age campsite and tool factory. Besides 30 Folsom points of jasper, chert and chalcedony, there was a scattered armamentarium of scrapers, knives, drills, engraving implements, hammers. Extending over a half-mile, the site was apparently once a lush pasture where Pleistocene animals, following the retreating ice rim, came to feed. That the hunters were contemporaries of the animals was perfectly plain...
That Drood was murdered by Jasper is the theory projected in most of the eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium...
...ending concocted for Universal by four scenarists including John L. Balderston (Berkeley Square) is somewhat obvious, the picture is nevertheless thoroughly entertaining, full of Mid-Victorian atmosphere, good acting, and Dickensian makeup. (The cast used 2,200 lb. of grease paint and false hair.) Startling shot: Jasper and Durdles being stoned by an urchin named Deputy who squeals: Winnie-winnie...
...House urging them to vote for their colleague and his political protege. In addition two other serious contenders for the Speakership were still in the running: loud, rambunctious John Elliott Rankin of Tupelo, Miss., and William B. Bankhead (father of Tallulah and the Cotton Control Act) of Jasper...