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Bearlike, big-shouldered Steve Fritchman, 45, editor of the 126-year-old monthly Christian Register since 1943, held one of the key jobs in the tiny Unitarian hierarchy. He also held membership in a list of alleged Party-line organizations as long as his left arm; he contributed to the Communist weekly New Masses and was a sponsor of the pseudo-pacifist, Communist-front "Yanks Are Not Coming Committee." Then, when Russia was attacked, he turned into what he called "a fighting liberal." After the war, as U.S.Soviet friendship cooled, some Unitarians thought that the Christian Register was flying...
Last week the U.S. war crimes tribunal at Nürnberg issued an indictment accusing Field Marshals Wilhelm List and Maximilian von Weichs and ten generals with responsibility for killing 13,000 persons in the Balkans and in Norway...
...president, the Rev. Louie D. Newton of Atlanta, Ga., climbed to the rostrum in St. Louis' Second Baptist Church to tell 1,000 of his fellow pastors how nice he had found it in Russia last summer (TIME, Aug. 26). Up popped grey-headed Pastor Norris with a list of 17 embarrassing questions...
Students not admitted should receive some balm, however, from Dean Watson's statement that all men unassigned to a House will be kept on the official waiting list, for the use of the masters when vacancies occur. In such instances, these men will be released from their dormitory contracts, and allowed to change their residences...
Bell-Ringer. Whitehead began his teaching career 62 years ago as a mathematician at Cambridge. He and his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, worked together for nine years on their Principia Mathematica, now on the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books, but strictly for specialists. Whitehead later became professor of mathematics at the University of London, quit (at 63) when faced with automatic retirement and came to the U.S. to start a new career on Harvard's philosophy faculty. He has written some 20 books on mathematics, science and philosophy (best-known: Science and the Modern...