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...older, wiser Churchill, in the scarlet robe of an (honorary) Oxford Doctor of Civil Laws, last week added two more honorary degrees to his now considerable string. The newest: a Doctor of Laws from the University of Miami, another from Westminster College. In Miami, Dr. Churchill plucked some ripe thoughts about education. Said...
Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), courtly ("You are certainly a good tucker," said Edith Bolling Gait Wilson as he patted a lap robe around her), devout (he came to believe that the Secret Service acted directly under divine providence), and looking somewhat like one of the later Antonines, Colonel Starling soon found himself on the White House Detail. For almost 30 years, first as an "SS man" and later as chief of "the Detail," the Colonel suffered the grave responsibility of guarding the lives of five U.S. Presidents from the homicidal reflexes of their fellow citizens. The result...
Prices were going higher; Chet Bowles would have to move up the beach. But there, unless Congress actually did refuse to renew his price controls when they expire June 30, he could wrap his robe about him and make another stand...
...crimes for dreamy idealism. . . . This story should convince us of one thing: that there are not two Germanys ... it is quite impossible for one born there simply to renounce the wicked, guilty Germany and to declare: 'I am the good, the noble, the just Germany in the white robe; I leave it to you to exterminate the wicked one.' Not a word in all that I have just said about Germany, or tried to indicate, came out of alien, cool, objective knowledge; it is all within me, I have been through...
...intern at Johns Hopkins hospital. Last week, at 34, Abner Harvey became the hospital's physician in chief. Appointed to Sir William Osier's old chair of medicine at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Harvey had won a post as honored by doctors as a Supreme Court robe is by lawyers...