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Senator Taft had called Columnist Lippmann a virtual ignoramus for daring to suggest that the great U.S. Senatorial tradition is to permit a President to select his own Cabinet, and that Cabinet choices which have been turned down were merely the exceptions which proved the rule. Now Columnist Lippmann hit back...
Smith College (Northampton, Mass.), perhaps the most democratic of the select sisterhood of Eastern women's colleges, last week appointed its first Negro teacher. Sociologist Adelaide Cromwell Hill, 26, who got her B.A. at Smith cum laude in 1940, proceeded to an M.A. at University of Pennsylvania, and is now working on a Ph.D. at Harvard, will join a faculty which already includes two Chinese and a Japanese...
...select class of Mexican luxury customers, which can afford the customary creaky service and stiff markets, seemed only faintly interested in Sears' coming. And the largest group of Mexican customers, the submerged, perpetually broke, factory-and farm-working three-fourths of the country, didn't seem to care...
...Select committee chairmen on some other basis than seniority...
...could not evaluate accurately the aspects of this select world," reflects Sonia, "whether the personal connection of these people with the immortals, or their poised arrogance in regard to such issues as the contemptible political machine in Boston, or their stylish language, or their blue-blooded ugliness was the more impressive. ... It was not, I concluded, that what they said and the judgments they passed were [profound] . . . but that the manner of these pilgrims' heirs was so fearless and direct that one was not struck with their fatuity...