Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Barr's hero is one Professor Henry Schneider, cynical head of the history department at a Midwestern university. Like his colleagues, he is underpaid. Like many of them, he is henpecked. Unlike most of them, he wonders what happened to the old dream that leads men like him to try to set intellectual fires in the minds of junior Philistines who have no intention of getting singed. And since Purely Academic is cast as fiction, Henry also lusts after the Georgia peach whose husband is the drearily ambitious head of the economics department...
...four million dollar libel suit against 14 different defendants including $250,000 against Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., '38, professor of History, was filed in Chicago Circuit Court on December 30 by Samuel Insull, Jr., son of the founder of a Midwestern electric power empire...
...California's San Bernadino Sun and Telegram (combined circ. 58,076), which cover the biggest county in the U.S.. fence metropolitan competitors with networks of string correspondents, special editions for local communities, one of the city-slick Sunday magazines. Says the publisher of a small-city Midwestern chain: "You have to be the plus paper." Through such tactics, Michigan's middlesized dailies have pared more than 100,000 Sunday circulation from Hearst's Detroit Times. Laments a metropolitan newspaper executive in Atlanta: "We're being nibbled to death by small ducks...
Ernest Orlando Lawrence, 56, University of California's Radiation Laboratory director, invented the atom-smashing cyclotron-which has been called "as useful in research as the microscope." Born in Canton, S.D., where his father was a superintendent of schools, Lawrence worked his way through local Midwestern colleges selling aluminum ware from door to door, and successfully so, despite the fact that the cakes he baked, as part of his presentation, usually caved flat as a platter. A Ph.D. (Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early...
...fight for the winner's prize will probably be confined to the midwestern schools, which have dominated this meet in recent years. Michigan State is the defending champion. Best hope for a high finish among the Ivy League teams is Cornell, winner of the Heptagonals, ten days...