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...University of North Carolina's enduring Louis Round Wilson, 82, a prime mover in raising Chapel Hill to scholastic eminence, whose prudent management of the school's domed, 1,000,000-volume library (now named after him) made it one of the nation's best. Quaker-born Librarian Wilson graduated from Chapel Hill in 1899, there launched the South's first library science course in 1901, the school's topflight Extension Division in 1912, the University of North Carolina Press in 1922. Robert Hutchins lured him to the University of Chicago in 1932, where...
Policy Advice. In Detroit, when he was unable to find the cashier at the Quaker City Life Insurance Co.. a robber interrupted a meeting of insurance agents to get proper directions, then made off with...
Though he was born a German, the British scarcely questioned the devotion of young Refugee Klaus Fuchs to democratic principles. His father was a Quaker theologian who had successively defied both the Kaiser and Adolf Hitler; his sister killed herself after helping her husband escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Young Fuchs was a brilliant theoretical physicist, won doctorates at both Bristol and Edinburgh. When World War II broke out, 31-year-old Fuchs, after first being interned in Canada, became a naturalized British subject and was soon recruited for Britain's secret atomic research program...
...predominantly Protestant South is still the heartland of anti-Catholic attitudes. In 1928, the last year when religion was a big national political issue, Quaker Herbert Hoover soundly defeated Al Smith, a Catholic, by more than 6,000,000 votes, and seven states (Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas. Virginia) split from the Solid South to vote Republican. The Southern trend, according to Gallup...
Overlooked behind winner Carl Shine of Penn in the shot put was the Crimson's Hank Abbot, (pictured above, right), who broke up a possible one-two Quaker sweep by throwing the 16-1b. ball 52 ft., 3 in. for a new University record. John Bronstein, Stan Doten, and John deKiewiet took ten discus points...