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...Father often said he felt at a disadvantage for having started in newspaper work at the top and wanted me to start at the bottom." When George Barry Bingham graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, he traveled two years, did a stint at Bingham radio station WHAS, then went humbly to work as police reporter on his father's Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. By the time Publisher Bingham became Ambassador to England in 1933, Barry Bingham was well on the way to the co-publishership he earned in 1935. Last week 31-year-old Barry Bingham, the late...
Paul graduated magna cum laude in History and is now doing graduate work in this subject. Last year he was chairman of the Graduate Schools Committee of Phillips Brooks House. In College he was an editor of the CRIMSON, vice-president of Phillips Brooks House, chairman of the Foreign Student Committee, and a member of the Political Union...
Most spectacular case before the overworked National Labor Relations Board at the moment is Ford Motor Co., charged with violating Labor's Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel...
...transparent water flea called Daphnia magna has had a lot of flattering things said about it by Professor Arno Viehoever of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science. "This little animal has a divine simplicity that is miraculous," Professor Viehoever never tires of telling. "It is seemingly a primitive form of life until studied. Its fundamental biological responses are very similar to ours. It has nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, optic and reproductive systems, and the beauty of it is that the animal is perfectly transparent so you can see everything that is happening, from the digestion of its food...
...gift of $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants convert solar energy into stores of energy available to man. Donor was Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Boston's blueblooded 76-year-old carbon black manufacturer who graduated from Harvard in 1882, magna cum laude. In memory of his late wife Mr. Cabot designated his gift the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research...