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Born in the Transvaal of a Dutch mother, an English father, Henry Landau's first vivid recollections are of the Boer War. Two languages were his by inheritance. German he acquired later as a boy at school in Dresden. In his travels about Europe he improved his French, picked up...
Attracted by this "Hint from John Harvard" (who left his books to the college--to be burnt up in the library fire of 1764) we thought of bringing our French 2 and German A books up in a wheelbarrow and dumping them on the Widener steps some dark night. But...
Early this summer when Professor Frankfurter was suggested as a possibility for the Massachusetts Supreme Court Bench, Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard Law School, said of him, "Professor Frankfurter's very great abilities are to well and too widely known to make it needful for anyone to vouch for them...
The crisis concerned nitrates, needful in peace as fertilizer, in war as the basis of explosives. Because Chile digs nitrates from her natural deposits, because German producers of synthetic nitrogen cut prices, threatened to ruin her, Chile's whole nitrate industry was rationalized, reorganized and speeded up last year by...
Kathleen Norris, 49, novelist, clubwoman, war-abolitionist, feminist, is married to Author Charles Gilman Norris (Salt, Brass, Bread). She has one son of her own, Frank (two daughters have died), but in the summer the Norrises' 200-acre ranch at Saratoga, Calif, houses a cheerful bedlam of children?wards, cousins...