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This week the University of Pittsburgh received one of the largest endowment gifts ever made for U.S. medical education. The gift: $15 million from three Mellon foundations.* Its purpose: to build full-time professional faculties to strengthen the present staffs of largely part-time teachers at Pitt's schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing, as well as at its new (1948) Graduate School of Public Health...
...kids, at least are frivolous enough to raid female schools, to pinch pantic girdles, to cut their hair in weird apache designs and tear down goal posts. By my observation, every European student thinks he is an embryo William Pitt, Garibaldi or Clemenceau with overtones of Stalin and wants everybody to learn about it at the top of his lungs...
...galleys, sudden freedom, and the encompassing arms of a passionate French countess. Face them he does, with fortitude and kisses. Next, commissioned in the British army, he ships to Canada, outwits Montcalm, helps Wolfe win his great victory at Quebec, returns to England a hero and is assigned by Pitt himself to a delicate diplomatic mission in Paris. There, naturally, he finds his steady old flame Maritza, still possessed of a local reputation for chastity. Happy of heart, Richard and Maritza leave the vanity of Europe behind and sail for the New World to raise Americans...
Statesmanship does not fit the rules. Political leaders (most of them, according to Psychologist Lehman, not original creative thinkers or artists) are usually not at their best till they are over 50. Moreover, today's statesmen are older, on the average, than in previous epochs. William Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister at 25 in 1784, Sir Winston Churchill not until...
...visited eye specialists repeatedly, but they held out no hope for him. Recently, during a Florida vacation, his wife read him a story from TIME about Dr. William Feinbloom of Columbia University, who had developed doublet eyeglasses, enabling the near-blind to see (Dec. 15). When Mr. & Mrs. Pitt got back from their vacation, they found that four different friends had sent them copies of the story. Pitt visited Dr. Feinbloom, was fitted with the new glasses. Confronted with a printed page, Pitt discovered he could read whole words; before, with the aid of the most powerful reading glass...