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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for Psychologist J. B. Rhine (extrasensory perception), few of Duke's professors have achieved popular fame. Yet, on almost any academic or Government committee, there is apt to be at least one faculty representative from Duke. Economist Calvin Hoover was one of Averell Harriman's top advisers on the Marshall Plan. Eber Malcolm Carroll, an authority on German history, served in the OSS during the war, directed the editing of captured German papers. Physicists Walter Nielsen and Lothar Nordheim played major roles at Oak Ridge. Neurosurgeon Barnes Woodhall is a ranking consultant to the Veterans Administration. Congregations...
Plain and Fancy (music & lyrics by Albert Hague and Arnold B. Horwitt; book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman), a folk musical about the Pennsylvania Amish, ought to prove popular. A good part of the time-thanks to Broadway as well as Amish industriousness-it is refreshingly lively; the rest of the time it seems-as the Amish themselves might-refreshingly dull. The whole thing has about it a nice country smell of ripe apples and respectable oddity...
...films a week, WOR is editing the films to suit its viewers. Last week the Italian film My Beautiful Daughter (dubbed-in English dialogue) featured a beauty-contest scene with girls in Bikinis. The scene was cut for "family showing" (9 to 10 p.m.) but restored for the popular late-at-night version...
...football team. But the chief gain, as ex-Coach Buchta sees it, is that "on this program we can finally show our brains instead of our muscles. What's more, the College Quiz Bowl has caused a campus revolution-it's making the bright student as popular and well known as the athlete...
...LL.B. from Georgia's Emory University ('33), he became a small-town (Marietta, Ga.) lawyer and went to the state legislature. After the war he ran for governor against Herman E. Talmadge, and was beaten under the state's county unit system, although he won the popular vote. After that, he joined Scripto as assistant to the president. A year later he became president, started the company expanding rapidly with ball-point pens, became the second biggest ball-point pen maker (behind Los Angeles' Paper-Mate) and the biggest mechanical pen and pencil maker...