Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murrow is a dark, lanky man with a luminous grin and a scholar's careful head. Thinking about Europe and thinking on his feet were two specialties with him before he became chief of CBS's news staff abroad in 1937. He had been President of the National Student Federation of America and assistant director of the Institute of International Education (with offices in Europe). A lack of newspaper experience turned out to be the least of his worries. Against stiff NBC competition-for NBC had been in the field for years and many Europeans thought...
...American Hemisphere, directed by soft-voiced Rhodes Scholar Carl B. Spaeth, Nelson Rockefeller's Latin American commercial aide. To bureaucratic Washington's surprise, Nelson Rockefeller not only willingly released Carl Spaeth, but told him to take along his capable 100-man economic staff. Said he to Milo Perkins: "You've got the authority and I've got the people. . . . Let's get together...
Bryn Mawr College followed Bryn Mawr tradition and last week chose a scholar to be its fourth president: Alumna Katharine Elizabeth McBride, who at 37 became one of the youngest college presidents...
...such dragon as Dr. Thomas is Katharine McBride. Tall, low-voiced, self-effacing, Miss McBride is a quiet research scholar in neurology. She got three degrees at Bryn Mawr (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), steps up to Bryn Mawr's presidency from the deanship of Radcliffe. But from Bryn Mawr, Dr. Thomas and Dr. Park, Miss McBride acquired a profound respect for scholarship. Said she last week: "One of the things I like best about Bryn Mawr is that they expect scholarly work of the students. . . . [Such] students . . . seem much better equipped . . to live in a world of changes like this...
Jock McGovern, a former plumber who represents Clydeside ship workers of Glasgow, is as unreconstructed a Socialist as ever caused conservatives to wince at his bad manners. He is no scholar-&-gentleman leftist like Economist Harold Laski, who recently, and politely, observed: ". . . we must begin a revolution by consent now or we shall get a revolution by violence after the war." But Jock McGovern would endorse this statement with the addition of a little invective...