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...California; Ivor Armstrong Richards (Basic English), of Cambridge University and Harvard; Progressive Educator William Heard Kilpatrick, of Columbia University's Teachers College, and his vigorous wife; dark young Philosophy Professor Max Black, of University of Illinois; stocky young Robert Bauer, an Austrian youth leader; bush-browed Malcolm MacLean, president of Hampton Institute; others of whose practical idealism Leader Schairer felt sure...
...others who were up in Canada were Rog Wilson, Mac McNair, Preble Motley, Maclean Griffin, and Winship. Captain Finn Ferner was unable to get that far north, so he skied in Woodstock. Vt., with Del Ames...
...Abner, which deals with life in the hillbilly village of Dogpatch. Other characters: Li'l Abner, a handsome hayseed; Daisy Mae, his shapely, briefly-clad admirer; Pansy Yokum, his mother; Lonesome Polecat and Loathsome Polecat, Indians. The idea for Sadie Hawkins Day at Yale belonged to Sophomore John Maclean. Having heard that such celebrations had already been held in several freshwater colleges, Maclean persuaded fellow News editors to invite girls and turn them loose in Dogpatch costumes to chase Yale men in Yale's Bowl between the halves of the game...
These bold words came last week from no embittered follower of Neville Chamberlain, at outs with Winston Churchill's Government. Published in Canada's No. 1 magazine, Maclean's, they were the work of a Dominion-born newspaperman and politician, Beverley Baxter. A longtime aide of gnomelike little Lord Beaverbrook, 49-year-old Newsman Baxter is a member of Britain's Parliament, an unpaid efficiency expert for British factory workers. His job is to pep up the men's morale...
Beaverbrook's Baxter writes a fortnightly London Letter for Maclean's, is rated in Canada as an unofficial spokesman for the Government. Two years ago, when Chamberlain capitulated to Adolf Hitler at Munich, Baxter believed with many another Briton that "never again would any dictator . . . dare to ask his people to face a world war." With all respect to such brilliant non-believers as his present chief, Winston Churchill, who was among those who refused to support Chamberlain's policy, Baxter wrote Maclean's: "It may seem a small thing for a group...