Word: lunn
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Lippmann left Cambridge a genteel Socialist, worked for a year on Lincoln Steffens' muckraking Everybody's Magazine. His first book, A Preface to Politics, was written after he served a brief stint as secretary to the Rev. George R. Lunn of Schenectady, N.Y., one of America's first Socialist mayors. But no dogma could contain Lippmann for long. He soon abandoned Socialism-but not all of its causes-and in 1914 became one of the founders of the liberal New Republic...
Died. Sir Arnold Lunn, 86, pioneering authority on skiing; in London. In the 1920s Lunn invented the modern slalom course, on which the skier executes all types of turns around markers set up in the snow. The Harrow-and Oxford-educated sportsman wrote a galaxy of volumes on skiing and such subjects as Communism, which he abhorred, mountaineering, travel and Catholicism, to which he was a zealous convert...
...informal conference was held in which both sides restated their cases, and the first hearings began on November 9. George W. Lunn, director of Personnel at the Medical Center, said yesterday that it was impossible to predict when the situation would finally be resolved...
...Lunn said that about 75 or 80 volunteers such as himself, mostly from the administrative staff of the center, are working part-time to fill the posts left vacant by the security guards...
...that the center is being guarded, but it is certainly far from a final solution. A man who is working an 11 p. m. to 7 a. m. shift and has to be at his desk at 9 a. m. is going to be in a pretty bad way," Lunn said...