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...really discovered by an 18th Century Russian poet-scientist-philosopher named Mikhail Lomonosov. This week the Russians claimed again that a Russian flew the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine 21 years before the Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin, and many basic discoveries in theoretical sciences were Russian products. A few of these claims have shreds of truth to them; most are the wildest fantasy...
Mindszenty, the son of a poor peasant, had risen to the highest church office in his land. Some of Hungary's peasants, who used to flock together in crowds of 45,000 to hear him speak, have seen him, even in recent years, working the land at his mother's five-acre farm in the village of Mindzent. Hungarians, who were now asked to believe that Mindszenty was an anti-Semite, remembered his courageous wartime sermons attacking Naziism, in which he declared that "antiSemitism and the proceedings against the Jews are the shame of civilization...
Then, Ben Hogan began to ease up on his solitary practice lessons. Said he: "I've learned how to play golf." His recent book, Power Golf (A. S. Barnes; $3), tells most of the golf tactics he knows-but not the one he discovered that day at Fort Worth. Of that one he says: "I won't even tell my wife...
College observers yesterday linked the University Hall move to the recent case of two members of the HTW who were suspended for appearing in an under-graduate production while on probation. Faculty protest against their suspension is said to have hastened the renewal of the pre-war probation-warning policy...
...Lamont plan emphasizes ease in reading and accessibility to books. The functional architecture of the building has been coupled with the most recent techniques of lighting and interior design to set a new standard in college libraries...