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...Harvard and elsewhere) committee's report on a nominee for a permanent appointment. But the original nomination still rests with the departments, with the ad hoc committee advising the President on his decision at a later date. The President and after him, the governing boards, should be encouraged to prod the departments into looking around for new blood even if it makes their own boil...
Newspapers are quick to pry and prod on almost any subject-except newspapers. Hoping to remedy the "voicelessness of the press about its own business" and its "almost psychopathic" sensitivity to criticism, the New England Society of Newspaper Editors began last week to publish an outspoken new magazine, the American Editor. Said Carl E. Lindstrom, executive editor of the Hartford Times, who is the society's president and editor of the new quarterly: "This journal is dedicated to self-examination rather than selfcriticism, but we shall not be afraid to study critically any of our habits...
Clifford A. Rand, Jr.: Lowell; House Comm.; WHRB, Adv. Mgr., Dir., Treas., Announcer, Prod.; Fr. soccer; Intramural sports; ROTC cadet capt.; ROTC Council...
...Tommies as well as officers, equal allotments for mistresses and wives), got himself sacked for his brashness by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, fell into political decline; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was delivering a speech on Franco-British unity; in Reims, France. Hore-Belisha did much to prod his nation into preparedness, probably will be recalled by most Britons for his term (1934-37) as Minister of Transport, when he installed orange, flickering "Belisha beacons" at crosswalks, got tagged Public Bore No. 7 (Bernard Shaw rated first) by Daily Express readers...
...defiance of superior odds has seized the world's imagination. But in Poland, say all reports, the fires of freedom smolder as hotly as in Hungary. They are kept in check by the way in which Communist Gomulka has achieved a provisional and perilous independence. The stir and prod of the Polish people on Gomulka, and the concessions he must make, are the best chance that Poland will achieve a peaceful transition from puppet state to the Finland model of cautious independence-but independence nonetheless-in the shadow of its big neighbors...