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Only last summer Washburn sealed Mt. Bertha, precipitous Alaskan peak, accompanied by four undergraduates: Maynard M. Miller '43; Thomas Winship '42; Alvah Morrison '43; and Lee Wilson, '42. He is to speak on this trip and will illustrate his talk with colored slides and motion pictures. To conclude the program William H. Forbes '23 of the Fatigue Laboratory will discuss the effects of high altitude...
Last week Britain's No. 1 economist arrived in the U.S. Off the Clipper stepped softspoken, twinkle-eyed, tall (6 ft. 1 in.) John Maynard Keynes, on an undisclosed mission under the Lend-Lease Act. He also expected to see the President, whom he last saw in 1934, when New Deal fiscal policies were in the blueprint stage. Keynes was the intellectual father of many of the New Deal's more radical fiscal policies, notably deficit spending and low interest rates. Since then he has become the father of a war-financing plan for Britain...
With shrewd, persuasive John Cowles to Minneapolis went the Register & Tribune's high-powered, Mencken-shaped Managing Editor Basil ("Stuffy") Walters, who got his start as editor of an A.E.F. newspaper in Italy with Adolphe Menjou and Robert Maynard Hutchins (now president of the University of Chicago). Third of the potent Cowles general staff on the Star-Journal was John Thompson, onetime editor of Pearson's Magazine...
...Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She was related to Thackeray and such scholarly dynasties as the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys. James Russell Lowell was her godfather. She married into the Bloomsbury group, which included Critic Bell, Novelist E. M. Forster, Biographer Lytton Strachey, Economist John Maynard Keynes...
...Marines held off, sticking by the tried-&-true Springfield rifle until they could crook their fingers around a suitable semiautomatic. Last November and December the Marines tested four guns: the Springfield; a revamped, improved version of the Army's Garand; Boston Inventor Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr.'s rival semiautomatic; and a new Winchester semiautomatic. Last week the Marine Corps delighted the Army's ordnance officers by officially adopting the Garand as the Corps's standard rifle. Captain Johnson himself (now reasonably content with a big order for his gun from The Netherlands...