Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board chose another Haverford graduate (1915), born on the campus during President Comfort's senior year: Felix Muskett Morley, Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes Scholar, foreign correspondent, author and able editorial writer of the Washington Post. His father, Dr. Frank Morley, taught mathematics at Haverford and Johns Hopkins. His two brothers, Author Christopher (Kitty Foyle) and Book Publisher Frank, were also Rhodes Scholars-an alltime U. S. record for one family...
From 1,700 candidates the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation picked 73 to spend 1940-41 doing special studies at its expense (average grant $2,500 per scholar). Cast in unusual roles by the awards are two successful candidates: Novelist John dos Passes, who will complete a series of essays on present American conceptions of freedom of thought; Artist Miguel Covarrubias, who will write a book on the culture of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec...
Died. Jean Cardinal Verdier, 76, Archbishop of Paris, Superior General of the Order of St. Sulpice. Famed as a scholar and teacher, Father Verdier had been for more than ten years the spiritual leader of a diocese of five million...
...angry that for several hours she feels young again, Fanny sails off to Oxford to reassure herself with a Rhodes Scholar who is (or was) her latest adorer. She finds him on a secluded garden bench, given over to love with a pretty girl...
Professor Leontief, a Russian-born scholar who took his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1928, was for two years adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Railways. He is co-author of a book, "Economics of the Recovery Program," and of numerous articles in periodicals...