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Died. Ezequiel Pedro Paz, 81, editor and publisher (1898-1943) of Argentina's La Prensa; in Buenos Aires. A towering, pince-nezed aristocrat, he made the newspaper founded by his father into one of the world's great dailies, equaled only by the New York Times in international coverage. He wrote his own, firmly righteous editorials, personally tongue-lashed employees who fell below his lofty standards and exiled them from the office for a week (with full pay). Editor Paz was so sure that La Prensa could never publish an untruth that ten years after it erroneously reported...
...best work, to be sure, but it is head and shoulders above anything else you are going to find at your local book merchant's until Orwell' executors publish a new collection of his essays...
...Government, said he, should publish answers to such questions as these...
Death of a Rival. Zhdanov's own son, Yuri, was chief of the scientific propaganda section. Malenkov, with Stalin's backing, forced Yuri to publish a cringing letter of apology for his "sharp and public criticism of Academician Lysenko." Three weeks later, Zhdanov Sr. died, presumably of a heart attack. In January the Kremlin shocked the world by asserting that Zhdanov had been murdered by a group of Soviet doctors, most of them Jews...
...Beer is one of the truly great teachers around here," said a section man in Social Sciences II. "Other men may publish more than he does, but when it comes to getting students to understand written material--and that's what a teacher is supposed to do--they don't come better than Beer. He's the kind of man who becomes a living legend." By building his courses around student interests and his own enthusiastic ideas, Beer has built a reputation as a man intensely concerned with his course material. And, of course, his students find it equally absorbing...