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...Always a keen student of the news. Condé Nast the man was strongly anti-Nazi and interventionist before Pearl Harbor. When the U.S. went to war, Nast the publisher took the lead in showing how patriotism can be smart and smartness patriotic. None could do it with so sure a touch...
Members of the 48-man group will be selected from the Junior Class, on the basis of their "keen interest in Yale and her athletic "institutions." A plan for distribution of membership has been drawn up whereby representatives of all major publications, undergraduate organizations, and fraternities, will serve in addition to sports managers captains...
Lost Umbrellas. Buttressing the keen military insight of France, of course, was the dogged valor of Britain. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who had just refused to lend his umbrella to a London exhibition of notable walking sticks, did public penance for the appeasements of his past. To Parliament he stated: "Everything I had worked for, hoped for and believed in during my public life has cracked into ruins. There is only one thing left for me, and that is to devote what strength and power I have to forwarding the victory...
Said Joseph Clark Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo since 1932, home after seven months' internment, two months at sea: "A red-letter day it is for all of us who have looked forward to this moment with absolutely inexpressibly keen anticipation...
...counts most in this transformation is Harvard's tall, razor-keen, 49-year-old President James Bryant Conant. Last week he was even busier than his university. In Washington he spent most of the week conferring with fellow members of Franklin Roosevelt's three-man committee investigating rubber. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he helps direct U.S. scientists' search for new materials, new weapons...