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Still trotting for his health: Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, 60; around the garden of his place in Paris. Caffery, rain or shine, was doing exactly 51½ laps a day, dutifully carrying lead-weighted batons. Style note: he wore l.a.k.* shorts...
Anyone who cannot afford a college education may enroll without cost. Only those who want credit toward a degree will pay tuition ($100 a semester). "It's the people's college idea that Thomas Jefferson had," says Taylor, "the idea of education for the masses...
...blocks away from the sweating planners in the hothouse, U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery and U.S. Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas were in secret session with French Foreign Minister Bidault. Their object: to get Bidault's O.K. for raising the industrial output of the Ruhr. This week, in London, U.S. and British diplomats, meeting more publicly with the French, will try the same thing...
Army Life. In Joppa, Md., in a $100,000 suit against the Government, Arthur K. Jefferson explained that he was operated on while in the Army, never quite recovered even after doctors operated a second time and removed from his abdomen a hand towel marked "U.S. Medical Department...
...festivities. The university had modestly dated its beginning from 1837, when the citizens of Louisville decided to build the first municipal university in the U.S. Last week, however, President John W. Taylor announced a new calculation: the university, he declared, was actually founded 39 years earlier, in 1798, when Jefferson Seminary, its "parent institution," was chartered. Accordingly, he ordered a new round of festivities for next year, to celebrate Louisville U's 150th...