Word: nicholases
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As student, professor and president, Nicholas Murray Butler was part of Columbia-and Columbia part of him-for 67 years. At 28, he was Columbia's youngest philosophy professor, and had already started a college for schoolmarms on the side (it became Columbia's famed Teachers College). Columbia...
Among them was every President of the U.S. since Hayes. A big behind-the-scenes Republican, Butler was a close adviser of Teddy Roosevelt (who dubbed him "Nicholas Miraculous"). Later they quarreled, and Butler became William Howard Taft's running mate in 1912. In 1920 he made his own...
But it was Columbia which was his monument. Columbia had fewer than 4,000 students when Butler became its president; today it tops 30,000, and its faculty is among the nation's four best. He once told the alumni (paraphrasing "Bloody Mary") that if they opened him they...
Died. Nicholas Murray Butler, 85; president-emeritus of Columbia University; in Manhattan (see EDUCATION).
Out of the Past (RKO Radio) is a medium-grade thriller about a not-very-smart young man (Robert Mitchum) who is hired to hound down the runaway mistress (Jane Greer) of a hard guy (Kirk Douglas). Mitchum finds the girl, sets up housekeeping with her, and lets himself in...