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Reluctant Believer. Red-cheeked, balding, Belfast-born, Clive Staples Lewis, 45, has been tutor and lecturer at Oxford's Magdalen College since 1925, teaches medieval English literature. His lectures are an Oxford rarity: they are jampacked. During World War I he served in France with the Somerset Light Infantry, was invalided home. His aunt, says he, was relieved to learn that the wound in his back came from a misdirected British shell, and was not an indication that he had been running away from the Germans...
...sharpest religio-psychological writer of the season is an elderly devil named Screwtape, whose letters of instruction have somehow fallen into the hands of C. S. Lewis, Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College. (Writes Mr. Lewis in the preface to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (Macmillan; $1.50): "I have no intention of ex plaining how. . . .") In a series of Chesterfieldian letters, written from the cozy depths of Hell, Screwtape advises his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on the best means of eternally damning the soul of his "patient." The "patient," a young Englishman who is never named, "backslides" into religion, is "rescued...
...Oxford's New College, in its annual report, the Record, listed 476 former New College men in the armed forces and eight killed in action, added that: "There being no artificial light out of doors, the beauty of the architecture by moonlight is remarkable." Magdalen College has let the Magdalen ground go to hay, formed a joint crew and a joint cricket team with...
...message received here is signed by Ernest A. Benians, Master of St. John's College, Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, and George Stuart Gordon, President of Magdalen College, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University...
Included among the prominent authorities are: I. A. Richards, head of Magdalen College at Oxford, a specialist in semantics; Shepard Jones, New England director of the World Peace Foundation; William Stoddard '07, public relations counsel for Filene's; Robert B. Choate '19, an editor of the Boston Herald; Professor Norton Long '32, of Mount Holyoke College, who has made a special study of the propaganda of corporations; M. D. Schulman, Columbia research psychologist and counsel for various governmental agencies; Edward Bernays, public relations counsel from New York; Lloyd Free, recently appointed editor of "The Political Science Quarterly"; and William Paley...