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...return to Hollywood, Goodman has worked on such recent TIME covers as the Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Walt Disney and Gwen Verdon stories. A serious student of the movie industry, Correspondent Goodman has collected over the years a library of some 1,000 books from a 1671 volume, Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (The Great Art of Light and Shadow), dealing with the invention of the magic lantern, to Mary Pickford's autobiography, Sunshine and Shadow...
Long Way from Brooklyn. Burdett, son of a prosperous civil engineer, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude at 19, worked five years on the Brooklyn Eagle, went abroad in 1940. For CBS he reported the war from Norway to North Africa, later covered Washington. Rome and the United Nations. Last week, after reporting the U.N. anniversary session at San Francisco for CBS, he went to Washington for a hearing in the Senate caucus room...
...seniors will receive their degrees summa cum laude, in contrast to only one three years ago. Together with magna and cum laude degrees, the number of seniors receiving their diplomas with honors will approximate the 48 percent of last year...
With proper medieval pomp and ceremony, the University of Bologna's top academicians and some important guests, e.g., U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Italy's Education Minister Giuseppe Ermini, gathered in the high-ceilinged Aula Magna last week to inaugurate a new addition to one of Europe's oldest universities: the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, first U.S. graduate school to be established on the Continent.* Said Ambassador Luce: "America is not here to add something to Bologna's centuries-old tradition . . . but to gain strength from...
...COURTS The history of the English constitution is largely one of struggle toward an independent, qualified judiciary (in the Magna Carta, King John covenanted that "we will appoint as justices . . . only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well"). The men who shaped the governments of the U.S. and its states were acutely conscious of the importance of a judiciary free to act without fear or favor toward the executive and legislative branches. In the post-revolutionary period nearly all judges-state as well as federal-were named by appointment and got life tenure...