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...impending retirement of U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Jefferson Caffery, 68, after 43 years in the Foreign Service, last week brought on a diplomatic shuffle...
These exemptions result from an understandable assumption: General Education's founders felt that repeated contact with scientific problems and frequent discussions with lab men would demonstrate the significance of science. They were wrong: when the student enters Mallinckrodt, Jefferson, or the Biology Laboratories he leaves the College atmosphere behind. Laboratory men are usually ill-equipped to discuss the broad problems of science in the modern world and many professors find equations more important than mere speculation...
...after years of foreign duty, a U.S. consular official came to Jefferson, Ohio to visit his brother, the famed author and editor, William Dean Howells. When he appeared on the streets wearing shorts, a pith helmet and an air of inscrutable mystery, he was nothing less than a sensation. One of those who was dazzled was Loy Wesley Henderson, the 14-year-old son of Jefferson's Methodist minister. He was disappointed to learn that the mysterious stranger was not an explorer (young Henderson had just finished reading Stanley's account of his adventures in Africa...
Gloves for Garbagemen. Jânio's triumph brought into startling prominence in Brazil an unpredictable personality who owes allegiance to no party but has never lost an election, who sometimes talks like a two-cruzeiro demagogue but insists that "all my intellectual formation is based on Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln." He began his political climb in 1946 by winning a seat in the São Paulo city council with the help of worshipful pupils and ex-pupils. From there he went on to the state legislature, where he sponsored a record 2,007 bills (60 passed, including...
...down history and especially into the life of great-grandfather William Cuthbert Faulkner provides a good deal of insight into the sources of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County characters and their stories. The great-grandfather was the living model for Colonel John Sartoris, one of the central figures in the Jefferson Sags, and in the figure of Faulkner himself, painfully dedicated to the labor of reproducing this family legend, lies a clue to the Reverend High tower of Light in August and the obsession with ancestral heroism which he carried with him even to the pulpit...