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...date when Georgia was dropped from respectable academic society after gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge had 1) packed the Georgia Board of Regents with political stooges; 2) made himself a member of the board; 3) fired Dean Walter D. Cocking (of the university's College of Education), President Marvin S. Pittman (of Georgia State Teachers College) and others because they were "furriners" (Pittman is Mississippi-born, Cocking Iowa-born) and alleged "nigger-lovers...
...from the White House came another significant appointment. To be his adviser on food problems, Economic Stabilizer James Byrnes picked Federal Judge Marvin Jones, onetime (1931-40) chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Jones last December refused to become Food Administrator as long as Claude Wickard remained Agriculture Secretary. Now Washington wiseacres speculate that Marvin Jones is again being groomed to be food boss, on his own terms...
...Arcade machine, the Monicker, one of the most temperamental mechanisms in Cambridge, Ruml has come through with a neat 58,000 point score, although an outsider, Charlie Marvin, is temporary high-man there with 65,000. Leigh and Ryan are close behind Ruml...
Also at the Business School Marvin J. Barloon (M. B. A. Harvard '35), of Cleveland, O., has been appointed Assistant Professor of Industrial Management. In the Medical School Dr. Joseph S. Lichty M. D. Harvard '33 M. B. A. Harvard '38), of Cambridge, Mass, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Medical Administration in the Department of Legal Medicine. In the Medical School and the School of Public Health Dr. Henry P. Treffers (Ph. D. Columbia '37 of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City), has been appointed Assistant Professor of Comparative Pathology and Biological Chemistry...
...with its portrayal of "Life" at Harvard last May, continued its Ivy League habits during the past two weeks in an invasion of Old Eli's cloistered walls. Life's peering cameramen, living up to their "nothing sacred" reputation won in Cambridge last year, when they featured Langdon P. Marvin '41 doing his setting-up exercises, looked into all phases of Eli existence from the individual Yale Man's daily life to the university's part in the War Program...