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Littauer's curriculum is too delicately adjusted to the inexperienced to fully reconstruct the old, professional days. But the school can still use some old hands in government. Although there are a few of them in the School's agriculture and foreign service programs, their work is too specialized to serve the purpose of the old Littauer Fellowships...
Against considerable opposition, he siphoned off $13 million in counterpart funds to reconstruct "the minds and hearts of the Germans," rebuilt universities, pumped another $3.5 million into a capital pool which new democratic newspapers could use for buying themselves out from under ex-Nazi owners...
...inception of this program will be one of the largest and most dramatic educational departures taken by the University since the war. By establishing tutorial for all, it will reconstruct the balance between the lecture system which provides knowledge impersonally by means of dictation, and small-group education which stimulates discussion. Moreover, it fashions the House system into a real center of the University's intellectual life...
...Bernard Spilsbury, Home Office pathologist, was called upon to reconstruct the body. He spent a full day collecting the pieces, and worked all night making a rough assembly. Then he did a routine day's work, after which he spent a second night finishing the reconstruction of Emily Kaye. The resulting "masterpiece" helped to send her murderer to the gallows-where Sir Bernard, quiet and efficient as ever, was on hand to perform the official post-mortem and confirm that death had resulted from dislocation of the murderer's spine "between the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae...
...with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy Box Murder Case.-The police began to consult him so often in baffling mysteries that his name became a regular...