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When a young Indiana pedagog named Walter Albert Jessup went to Columbia a quarter-century ago to work for his doctorate he found heading the department of educational sociology a man much like himself and only two years his senior. Of this man. Henry Suzzallo, he made a life-long friend. Four years after Professor Suzzallo approved Walter Jessup's dissertation Social Factors Affecting Special Supervision in the Public Schools in the United States, and gave him his Ph. D., both teacher and pupil were called to head State universities-Suzzallo to Washington, Jessup to Iowa. Both men proved...
...before Dr. Stone's work, skin was the only graft which took with regular success. Gland and other tissue grafts quickly died, because they were a foreign substance in the patient's system. The patient then needed another operation or was obliged to go on a life-long regime of drugs...
...cubbyhole. His shillyshallying in the face of a near mutiny results in the loss of an aviator and plane; another aviator, named Brice (Reed Brown Jr.), takes charge of the camp, sets grimly about digging in for another winter on a six-week food supply. But Hartley's life-long luck comes out of temporary hiding, and Brice, after forcing promises from all hands that none of the "messy" incidents shall be disclosed, cynically gives back the reins to his chastened superior in time for Broadway's anointment of ticker tape...
...death of Professor Babbitt is a grievous event which will shock those who have loved or envied Harvard for its handful of truly great thinkers. But the student of Professor Babbitt who has studied the details of his life-long fight against the drifting artificial culture with which many so-called "moderns" annoint themselves, will realize the two-fold significance of his death. For the world has lost a remarkable man; at once a brilliant teacher and a great warrior...
...first time. From Senatorial wisecracks he often got large belly laughs, with his narrow blue eyes wrinkling up out of sight under bushy grey brows. With newsmen he gossiped good-naturedly, told them about his bloodstone watch charm, joked about his own importance but firmly refused to break his life-long rule against interviews...