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"Twenty years ago, when the 200-inch telescope project came up before our group in New York, one of the trustees raised an objection . . . 'Aren't we acquiring more knowledge than we can assimilate?' . . . Obviously the difficulty lies in the fact that there is no way of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Knowledge & the Danger | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

If several of the poorer items in this sixth issue of "Wake" were not so blatantly characteristic of a certain persistent type of writing, I would by-pass them entirely in favor of the better pieces, which comprise the bulk of the magazine. But when creations such as Austryn Wainhouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wake | 5/13/1948 | See Source »

Two other stories--"Worth A Golden Spoon" by Cledwyn Hughes and "Episode of a House Remembered" by John Rogers (one of the three undergraduate editors of "Wake")--appear to me to be cleanly written and clearly conceived pieces, but they nonetheless left me with a peculiarly unsatisfied feeling. "Worth A...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wake | 5/13/1948 | See Source »

¶ Raised no objection when the Federal Housing Administrator appointed his younger brother, J. Vivian Truman, 62, to a $7,100 job as district FHA director for western Missouri.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Like Death & Taxes | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

The issue came to a head with the formation nationally of ADA, a specifically non-Communist organization pledged to the extension of "the Roosevelt-Willkie tradition." To join this group, HLU had to amend its constitution, and, further, join SDA (ADA's student branch), as individuals. This latter provision met...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: College Politicians Run Amok in Election Year | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

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