Word: simpson
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...judgment: Hitler was Man of the Year in 1938. Nor is a symbolic figure ruled out: the American Fighting-man was the choice for the Korean War year of 1950 and the Hungarian Freedom Fighter was chosen for 1956. There have been two Women of the Year-Wallis Warfield Simpson for 1936, Queen Elizabeth for 1952-and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek shared the cover with her husband on Jan. 3, 1938. The Man of 1957 was Nikita Khrushchev, and for 1958 it was Charles de Gaulle...
Kelly & Jelly. To juvenile minstrels, adult foibles are fit for parodies that spread with lightning speed. During the crisis over King Edward VIII's abdication in 1936, when censorship hushed grownups, English children everywhere blithely chanted: "Hark, the Herald Angels sing,/ Mrs. Simpson's pinched our King...
...ALAN SIMPSON Dean of the College University of Chicago Chicago...
Last week Chancellor Kimpton announced his briskest reforms to date: appointment of Dean Simpson and complete re-establishment of major studies within the college. The full-size curriculum is likely to command respect at last for the sagging college of the wealthy (endowment: $186 million) university; the new dean already has it. Trim, clip-toned, British-born Alan Simpson went to Chicago in 1946 as a newly demobbed Royal Artillery major. He is now a U.S. citizen, married to an associate editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists...
...professional educator," Dean Simpson said last week. "But I do know an educated man when I see one, and I shall try to see that we turn out that kind of student-namely, one free of cant and humbug. The ordinary American boy who will only make a million in later life, the ordinary girl who wants a husband as well as a diploma, are as welcome here as the Quiz...