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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ROLAND L. HILL...
...half-hour program that followed was the first installment in the University of Louisville's twice-weekly "radio-assisted correspondence course" in "Problems of Modern Society." It included a chorus of All Hail to You, Dear U. of L., a talk by Louisville's unshrinking President John W. Taylor, and instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and send in a registration blank; for college credit, enclose $30 tuition and you will get study materials, written assignments and, in due course, exams). Negroes, who by state law are forbidden to study in the same...
Hastings already has such legal luminaries as Oliver L. McCaskill, 70 (30 years at Cornell and the University of Illinois), and Arthur M. Cathcart, 75 (34 years at Stanford). Last week it named two more: Max Radin, 68, University of California philosopher and law historian, and Ernest G. Lorenzen, 72, a veteran of 27 years at the Yale School of Law. Coming next year: Harvard's famed constitutional lawyer Thomas Reed Powell...
...promotion, the Times also shuffled five other news executives around-but brought in no new faces. Most important change: amiable, Mississippi-born Assistant Managing Editor Turner Catledge, who has spent 18 of his 47 years on the Times, moved up to acting managing editor. He will replace Edwin L. James, who sailed last week for a long vacation in Europe...
Consumer Endurance. It was a tough week all around for consumers. To pay for the new wage gains of John L. Lewis & Co., soft coal mines boosted their prices 4? to 50? a ton (retail equivalent: up to $1.25 a ton). Though hard coal producers had raised prices only a month ago to cover higher wages, one of the biggest of them, Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., Inc., raised the ante again, by as much as $1.10 a ton. A few hours after the rail-wage fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission...