Word: scholar
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...years on the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, Tom Connally has inevitably picked up a good deal of information. He has visited Europe several times. But he has no clain to expertness in the endless subtleties and complexities of foreign relations. He shows none of the scholarly inclinations in the field of international affairs which have distinguished his great predecessors in the Foreign Relations chairmanship. In knowledge and experience he ranks far closer to William J. ("Gumshoe Bill") Stone, the Missouri lawyer-politician who stubbornly opposed Wilson's war policies as chairman in 1914-18, than...
Hunter's Aim. Yet few could doubt that Dr. Shuster's aim was what he said it was: to protect everybody's feelings in a college community of 10,000 hard-working girls. Wisconsin-born President Shuster is no doctrinaire scholar, but a lively example of fair-mindedness. He is a Notre Dame graduate who publicly protested when Notre Dame's 'president tried to clamp university censorship on the off-campus liberal speeches of Associate Professor Francis Elmer McMahon (TIME, Dec. 20). President Shuster wrote his forthcoming book on Germany with Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser...
Death Revealed. John Thomas Looney, 74, British Shakespearian scholar; early this month; in Swadlincote, England. The Looney theory that Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, has been backed by a U.S. research group...
...honorable member for Vancouver North had been excused from the last three sessions because of a more pressing assignment: administrative duty with the City of Windsor Spitfire squadron, which fought in Egypt, Libya, Malta and is now in Italy. He was Flight Lieut. James Sinclair, 35, onetime Rhodes scholar, home on leave...
Economist-Senator Myrdal was chosen by Carnegie's trustees to make this major American study because he was 1) an able scholar, 2) not an American, and thus could look at Negroes with an "entirely fresh mind." Perhaps not since de Tocqueville and Bryce has the U.S. had such an analytical probing by a sharp-eyed foreigner. Sifting a mountain of documentation through a trained academic mind, Dr. Myrdal drew conclusions that will make U.S. citizens either nod or squirm...