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Dean Bernice B. Cronkhite, dean of Radcliffe's Graduate School, has been elected as a Trustee of Barnard College. She will serve a seven-year term on the board of trustees of the New York school...
...world wars, Junkers won a fearsome fame. After each war, the victorious allies banned German plane production, and Junkers bided its time. Last week, after a seven-year shutdown, Junkers-makers of the screaming Stukas that terrified Poland and France-reopened its Kassel plant, announced that for the present it would make only machine tools but soon expects to be turning out its old line of goods, famous since...
North Carolinians, who sometimes call their state "a valley of humiliation between two mountains of conceit," last week had something to crow about. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which ordinarily renews the certificates of "feeder" airlines for only three years, broke precedent by issuing a seven-year renewal to North Carolina's tiny but fast-growing Piedmont Airlines. In addition, CAB awarded Piedmont four new routes, and gave Piedmont a public pat on the back for its "outstanding record...
...President of Ireland ("The Man in the Park" to his constituents) must stand aloof from the rough & tumble of partisan politics. For seven years, benign, learned Sean O'Kelly has held the $32,000-a-year job and his tongue as well. It came hard to a man who was once as outspoken ("We'll whip John Bull yet! . . .") in the cause of Irish freedom as any in the land. Last month, as his first seven-year term drew to a close, O'Kelly faced the privilege granted to all outgoing Irish Presidents of nominating himself...
Mortimer Adler is with us again, I see. Like the seven-year itch, he crops up right on schedule. But why TIME [March 17] should make an issue out of Adler's banalities is beyond me ... His sophistries are more transparent than ever. His furious preoccupation with thought is an academic pose. There is no need for him to make believe that he is searching for truth, because he has it up his sleeve all the time...