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JAMES ROBINSON SHEPLEY, who became the youngest chief of the Washington bureau, TIME-LIFE'S largest, in 1948 when he was only 30, will succeed Laybourne as chief of domestic correspondents. Jim Shepley cubbed on the Harrisburg Patriot, edited by his father, was a United Press correspondent in Washington before he joined TIME as a Washington reporter in 1942. He covered the China-Burma-India. Southwest Pacific and European theaters in World War II, later served as military aide to General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army. He was back in civvies only a short time...
...largest single exam numerically, with 105 students taking it, will be in History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth Century Europe, taught by Professor Hans Kohn. While one of the smallest, according to Leonard's figures, is Biophysics S-201 with a lone student scheduled to appear...
...didn't realize," said a U.S. tourist in Turkey last week as he gaped at the devastation on all sides, "that Istanbul was so badly bombed during the war." A guide promptly reassured him that Turkey's largest and most famed city had never been a target for enemy bombers.* But what the explosives of wartime combatants had done in malice for the clutter of London and Berlin, the peaceful but restless ambition of Premier Adnan Menderes was doing for Istanbul...
...well as the night. Now all this has changed. In twelve feverish, prosperous postwar years, Tokyo has had an explosive growth. Not only is it now the new Shanghai of the Far East, but it has also overtaken New York and London and become the largest city in the world...
...time prospector. One day in the 1880s while prospecting in eastern Utah's Uintah Basin, he found a crumbly, shiny, black substance which he mistook for a new form of coal. But when he tried to burn it, it melted. It was one of the world's largest known deposits of a natural pitch substance similar to what Noah supposedly used to caulk...