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...Bell-Ringer. Whitehead began his teaching career 62 years ago as a mathematician at Cambridge. He and his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, worked together for nine years on their Principia Mathematica, now on the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books, but strictly for specialists. Whitehead later became professor of mathematics at the University of London, quit (at 63) when faced with automatic retirement and came to the U.S. to start a new career on Harvard's philosophy faculty. He has written some 20 books on mathematics, science and philosophy (best-known: Science and the Modern...
There, as refugees, come Willy Wiede-meyer, old friend of Adolf Hitler, and his wife and daughters. Fat Willy, a character who is in some ways a dead ringer for "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, plans to sell his inside story of the Hitler household to the U.S. occupation authorities. Price: immunity for himself and family. But Willy falls into the hands of a cynical U.S. war correspondent posing as a captain, who wants the story but has no power to save Willy. Worse, a gang of fanatical SS men, still at large, moves into the valley and goes gunning for Willy...
...tips have been received by his office since the Montreal lead was proven false, Christy stated. One located West in Grafton, and another in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Residents of a lonely dwelling in Grafton reported a stranger who was "a dead ringer for West" at the kitchen water tap last Tuesday. They said he fled on discovery. The timing of the identification in Woonsocket made it possible for the two to be the same man, Christy observed...
...House. Still smarting under the Stigma of having a larger turnout for the chess team than for their football team, the Elephants were steering a middle-of-the-road course as Charlie Mains, former player for Boston University, put his charges through basic running plays studded with an occasional ringer...
Last week the Colonial Office's arguments were inferentially bolstered when a black Basuto named John Makume, convicted of ritual murder, was hanged at Maseru, Basutoland, 3,000 miles from the scene of the Gold Coast mystery. John Makume was a Sunday bell-ringer in the local church, and his little gang of 16 men were "all educated and professed Christians." John, 75, had dispatched to the spirit world a 60-year-old shoemaker, had made "medicine" from the head, heart, lungs. In Basutoland such a medicine is believed to increase a chief's prowess in battle, boudoir...