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Died. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, 68, whose appointment as U.S. Minister to Denmark (1933-36) made her America's first woman diplomat; of a coronary thrombosis; in Copenhagen. Daughter of three-time Democratic Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan, at one time she taught public speaking, lectured on the Chautauqua circuit, served in the House of Representatives (1929-33), found greatest happiness as Minister to Denmark but had to resign in 1936 when she married Borge Rohde, a captain in the King's palace guards...
...decision last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington struck a hard blow at the U.S. Department of Justice's celebrated case against Far East Expert Owen Lattimore. The court upheld District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl's dismissal of the key count in a perjury indictment against the former State Department consultant. Said the court: the charge that Lattimore lied when he told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that he was not a "sympathizer" or "promoter" of Communism was "void for vagueness"; the indictment should have defined its terms...
Cooper cast his first Senate vote-on the transfer of investigatory powers to Owen Brewsters special War Investigating Committee-against his party. He felt that the Brewster committee was a political device, and he made it the subject of his maiden speech in the Senate. "One of the most disturbing factors we have seen during the past 13 years," he said, "has been the ignoring of the rules of laws, and sometimes an actual contempt of those rules by some of those who were a part of the Government itself. For myself, I should like to uphold in this body...
...blades could hang out and sing together in mellow harmony. What happened? The mudpack and the facial, the manicure, new-fangled tonics, lotions and powders, whirring electrical scalp treatments-and the barbershop quartet became a sentimental memory. Then, in 1938, a song-happy Tulsa tax attorney (and baritone) named Owen C. Cash organized the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Amateur singers flocked to join the society (25,000 members in 615 chapters in the U.S., Hawaii, Alaska, the Canal Zone and Canada), and last week 4,000 of them met in Washington...
...John Owen Beaty, head of the S.M.U. English department and a member of the faculty for 34 years, had charged that the University was being taken over by what he called "powerful, non-Christian elements in our population." In a pamphlet entitled "How to Capture a University," Beaty had asked, "Are the minds of our students to be guided by B'nal Writh... or by Soviet Moscow... or by assorted devotees of the little world power which usurps the name of 'Israel...