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...American Heritage (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Destiny West is a vignette from the life of John Charles Fremont, pioneer of America's 19th century continental expansion. With Jeffrey Hunter (Fremont), Howard St. John (Thomas Hart Benton), Susan Strasberg (Jessie Benton Fremont) and James Daly (Kit Carson...
...American Council of Learned Societies has awarded $10,000 to Roman Jakobson, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. The Council praised Jakobson last night as a "pioneer" and "zealous organizer" in the establishment of Slavic literary studies throughout the world...
Died. Dr. Leo Loeb, 90, German-born, Swiss-educated pathologist, whose pioneer researches (into the importance of heredity and sex hormones) led Harvard's great Physiologist Walter B. Cannon to remark: "It is impossible to view cancer research from any angle without finding it enriched by Dr. Loeb"; in St. Louis...
...Paul Hoffman, pioneer administrator of the Marshall Plan and now managing director of the United Nations Special Fund, saw a need for a coordinated global effort to replace sporadic philanthropy. Said Hoffman: "All countries, whether their incomes are high, medium or low, must in their own self-interest accept proportionate responsibility for a rapidly expanding world economy...
This week Danville (pop. now 10,000) celebrated the 150th anniversary of Pioneer Surgeon McDowell's pioneering operation. Appropriately-for McDowell had once served as its postmaster-Danville's post office was the first to sell a new 4? commemorative stamp...