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...Born in Nova Scotia, the son of a clergyman, Dean Simpson came to the U.S. in 1927. An Anglican priest since 1921, he had been a World War I Canadian Army captain and a Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, Dr. Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There...
Radcliffe also announced yesterday the appointment of Mrs. Ethel M. Desborough of Nova Scotia as head resident of Whitman Hall, to replace Mrs. Howard Denning, who is returning to England...
Died. Sidney Earle Smith, 62, Canada's well-traveled Secretary of State for External Affairs, Nova Scotia-born lawyer who gave most of his career to education, was president of the University of Manitoba (1934-44) and the University of Toronto (1945-57), entered politics at 60 when-soon after the first Tory election victory in 22 years-he accepted the External Affairs portfolio in 1957; of a cere-'bral hemorrhage; in Ottawa...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A re-creation of last year's mine disaster at Springhill, Nova Scotia, in which, amazingly, twelve men were found alive a week after the cave-in, seven more two days after that...
...Nova Scotia farmer from the herring-heavy shores of Pugwash (pop. 950), Eaton first thought of entering the ministry but soon changed his mind after a visit to his uncle, who was pastor of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. One of the parishioners was Standard Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller, who gave the 17-year-old youth a job as a clerk on his estate outside Cleveland...