Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee, the plans to broaden Britain's traditionally upper-crust Foreign Office, and Russia's efforts to dominate civil aviation in Eastern Europe. But Corps Diplomatique still seems most at home in its social column, "Embassy Row," served up with heady whiffs of the old monde élégant: "The other day we met Baroness van Boetzelaer in what Milton called the best company: alone. . . . Emerson's wisdom that art teaches us manners and abolishes haste attains its perfect example in the First Lady of Washington's Diplomatic Corps [Brazilian Sculptress Senhora Maria Martins...
...Other winners: The Scranton Times, public service; Reporters William L. Laurence and Arnaldo Cortesi (New York Times), Homer Bigart (New York Herald Tribune), Edward A. Harris (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Cartoonist Bruce Russell (Los Angeles Times). History: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s Age of Jackson. Biography: Linnie M. Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness. Play: Lindsay & Grouse's State of the Union. Music: Leo Sowerby's Canticle of the Sun. Novel and poem: no award...
...John L. Sullivan and his handlebar mustaches were objects of manly admiration when a pint-sized Englishman arrived in Manhattan and decided to become a prizefighter himself. After a few fights, James J. Johnston reconsidered. A man with his brains shouldn't risk having them knocked...
Pfizer brought the price of penicillin down from $20 per 100,000 units to less than $1. This chemical miracle was primarily the work of John L. Smith, the practical-minded chemist who now runs the Pfizer Co. Smith, a shy man with an intense dislike of publicity, was born in Germany, came to the U.S. at the age of three. He learned some chemistry in school, was further helped by his father, who had taken a correspondence course in it. Later, Smith attended Cooper Union, but left before getting his degree to go to work as a laboratory assistant...
...faculty member whose responsibility it will be to select the delegate. Robert Watson '37, associate dean of the College, who represents the faculty, and Dan H. Fenn, Jr. '44, who will act as chairman, were designated last Tuesday along with members John C. Harper '46 and John C. L. Hulley...