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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through every medium possible . . . Christianity and the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races." Jewish students would be banned, added an Armstrong spokesman, unless converted to Christianity. To nail it all down, old Judge Armstrong demanded a new five-man board of trustees, provided that he would name three of them himself. Among his candidates: old (75) George Van Horn Moseley, onetime major general in the U.S. Army, who had once trumpeted that "the finest type of Americanism can breed under [Fascist and Nazi] protection...
When Richard Buckminster Fuller's name is mentioned, most architects chuckle indulgently; a few reverently bow their heads. Sparkling "Bucky" Fuller, a rotund little man who looks more businesslike than he is, long ago startled the U.S. with designs for three-wheeled, tear-shaped cars and pear-shaped "Dymaxion" houses hung from metal masts, but he never succeeded in convincing investors that his ideas were adaptable to mass production - the only kind that interests him. At 54, Bucky confesses without a smile that his one purpose is still to house "the 800 million people now alive who will...
...Fairservis guesses roughly that the city, unlisted on maps or by historians, so far as he knows, died "about the time of the Crusades" (11th to 13th Centuries A.D.). Next summer he intends to go back with a staff of archeologists, to give the city its correct ancient name and its place in the stream of history...
...salary is now $10,000, and he may get a percentage of the gross take. *Microbiologists would prefer that laymen call each organism by its right name, but in the privacy of their own laboratories, they often call them all "bugs." *From the Greek for "white twisted fungus." *With nearly all microorganisms, a species is made up of many strains which may differ as much as a German shepherd differs from a Pekingese in the dog species. *Marketed by Parke, Davis & Co., which financed Burkholder's work, under the trade name Chloromycetin (pronounced Chloromy...
Born. To Clifford Stanton Heinz II, 30, an heir to the Pittsburgh food-packing fortune founded by his grandfather, the late H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz, and Second Wife Virginia Howard Heinz, thirtyish: their second child, first daughter (he has a son by his first marriage); in Los Angeles. Name: Sharon Louise. Weight...