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...plum with which Dr. Fagg was tempted was the deanship of Northwestern's School of Commerce. At Northwestern, as at several other institutions, the business school has become the biggest branch of the university...
...replace Eugene L. Vidal as director. He went quietly to wort, reorganizing the bureau, established a safety and planning division that began to study more and better safety devices for pilots. By last week, when President Walter Dill Scott made a tempting offer to him to return to Northwestern, bureau officials and the industry at large were sorry...
...universities have been raided heavily since 1933 by Washington. Last week the tables were turned when Northwestern University robbed Washington of one of its most brilliant young men, 41-year-old Fred Dow Fagg Jr., who in seven months, as Director of the Bureau of Air Commerce, had transformed that division from an Administration headache to a smile...
...counterraid, for Washington had taken Dr. Fagg from Northwestern. A teacher of economics and law for 15 years-at Harvard, University of Southern California and the Institut fur Luftrecht in Konigsberg, Germany, as well as Northwestern-Dr. Fagg, a Wartime liver, founded and headed the Institute of Air Law in Chicago in 1929, became so authoritative an expert in his subject that the Federal Government drafted him as part-time legal adviser in 1934, later asked him to help revise the civil air regulations...
...Maguire s brain with which she normally would have done her thinking was withered. A mid-part was scarred by an old inflammation. Both conditions almost totally destroyed her ability to move her head, eyes, jaws, tongue, shoulders, hips, legs, knees. The withered frontal lobe proved most interesting to Northwestern's pathologists, for it was not directly affected by the attack of encephalitis lethargica which rendered the young woman inert. Dean Irving Samuel Cutter of Northwestern offered this explanation: "The first stages of encephalitis are sleep, paralyzing of certain cranial nerves, general weakness and acute inflammation chiefly affecting...