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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, and chairman of the committee to choose a successor to President Wilbur K. Jordan, declined last night to comment on the report of Mrs. Bunting's selection. "I have no comment--either to confirm or deny," Schlesinger said...
...Kantrowitz' indoor waves are only about half as fast as the waves that Professor Gold theorized as coming from the sun. But the difference in speed is easily accounted for by the fact that the gas in the tube is not nearly so thin as interplanetary gas. Such waves may be among the disturbances that instruments in the moon-probe rocket Pioneer IV detected deep in space, 10,000 miles beyond the outermost limit of the Van Allen radiation. Dr. Kantrowitz suspects that his newly discovered waves may prove a serious threat to interplanetary travelers of the future...
Born in Nova Scotia, the son of a clergyman, Dean Simpson came to the U.S. in 1927. An Anglican priest since 1921, he had been a World War I Canadian Army captain and a Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, Dr. Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There...
...crisscross calligraphy as good as or better than most abstractions. Said the art critic of Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "After all, in the circus we have learned to discern fine artistry and great human values beneath a clown." Said irreverent Painter Pinot Gallizio, a former professor of chemistry and amateur archaeologist who turned painter only seven years ago: "Painting as such has reached the end of its road. From now on, the human eye will be perfectly satisfied by seeing any color or shape, provided the color is brilliant and the shape imaginative...
Henry A. Kissinger '50, lecturer on Government and associate director of the Center for International Affairs, has been appointed Associate Professor of Government, effective July 1. The University has also announced that Kenneth S. Lynn '47, Assistant Professor of English, will become an Associate Professor of English...