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Triumphant Life. Planck himself had triumphs, too. He became rector of the University of Berlin, and won the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics. But when the Nazis came into power, German scientists with Jewish blood (including Einstein) were hounded out of the country. Many "Aryan" scientists fled too; but old Max Planck stayed behind. In 1934 (he was 76), he went in person to Hitler, to demand an end of Jewish persecution. Hitler turned his back while the old man talked. The following year, Planck was removed from the presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (a scientific society). When...
Whether they have affected ruffles or roadsters, gentlemen have always been the pride of the picturesque college town of Charlottesville in Albermarle County, Virginia. The University glories in its distinguished founder and first rector, Thomas Jefferson, and the names of Presidents Madison and Munroe appear on the records as "visitors," 1819 equivalent of trustees. The wealthiest state university per capita in the nation, it was recently termed a collection of "rich young wastrels" by Time Magazine. More kind and accurate many years earlier was the description of the undergraduate product by Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard at the inauguration...
July 26-Seven Protestant clergymen and a physician left New York's La-Guardia airport. They were: William Howard Melish, associate rector of Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, chairman of the American-Soviet Friendship Council and longtime friend of the Communist Party; Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, anti-Roman Catholic editor of The Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler; the Rev. Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., director of the Peoples' Institute of Applied Religion; George Walker Buckner Jr., editor of the World Call of the Disciples of Christ; Phillips...
...Reverend Morris F. Arnold, rector of Grace Church, Medford, delivered the invocation...
Sponsored by the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee, the commemoration will begin with a short invocation by the Reverend Morris F. Arnold, rector of Grace Church, Medford...