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Strike-badgered General Motors scarcely had time to notice this week that a Scottish member of its board, hearty Sir Harry Duncan McGowan, was raised to the peerage as a Baron by His Majesty King George VI, who released last week his first Honors List. Sir Harry, easily the biggest Briton on the list, was knighted in 1918 for putting through efficient mergers of munitions firms. He has long been rated "the highest salaried industrialist in Great Britain," a key figure in Rearmament today, and is Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries...
...Honors List created two additional barons and a viscount, each of these new peers being a Conservative Party henchman of long service. The Prime Minister's good wife, Mrs. Lucy Baldwin, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, got her admirable oar in with the elevation last week of Juliet, Lady Williams to the rank of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author...
Somewhat puzzled were London wiseacres as to whether this Honors List, which ordinarily would have come out on New Year's Day, was just about as it would have been if issued by King Edward, or had been severely pruned of numbers of his friends. Various stars and orders were handed by George VI to such people as the captain of the yacht on which Edward & Mrs. Simpson cruised; to the most convivial of the ex-King's equerries, Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird; and to Edward VIII's air pilot, Wing Commander Edward Hedley ("Mouse...
...analysis of the Rank List Standing of the forty members of the Class of 1939 who received National Scholarships and regular scholarships, or Harvard Club awards shows that 35 or 87.5 per cent had honor records as compared with 25.6 per cent for the Freshman Class as a whole. The members of the Class of 1939 who received National Scholarships and also the "runners up" not only made an excellent showing scholastically, but they also made important contributions to the general life of the College and did not isolate themselves from their classmates. From the very beginning of the year...
...increase in the number of men who made the Dean's List. 25.7 per cent were on the Dean's List as compared with 24.1 per cent...