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Carmichael, who will retire sometime this year to head the Smithsonian Institute as Secretary, was a Sheldon Fellow at the University in 1924, a lecturer in psychology in the summers of 1927 to '31, and returned in 1935 as a visiting professor. He will be succeeded at his Tufts post by William Saltonstall '28, present headmaster of Exeter...
Last week he moved his regular press conference (his 300th in seven years) into the dim, cavernous auditorium of the Smithsonian Institution so that 400 visiting editors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors could hear the new Truman in action. After the picture-taking and handshaking, A.S.N.E. President Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal began the show with a planted question that none of the White House regulars had thought to ask before. He asked the President to comment on his "political philosophy in retiring," and Harry Truman...
...college Dr. Neuman now runs was founded by two men who believed, as he does, that the U.S. is the hope of Jewish learning. Dr. Cyrus Adler, then assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Moses A. Dropsie, a wealthy Philadelphia lawyer, dreamed of a "Golden Age of Jewish Literature" in the U.S. When Dropsie died in 1905, he left $1,000,000 to found Dropsie College...
...last week one Danish expert on old runic inscriptions announced that the Kensington Stone may be genuine, after all. In a lengthy report released by the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. William Thalbitzer admitted with true scientific caution: "I cannot but waver in my doubt . . . the inscription may be authentic...
Some freshwater snails that Old sent back are the first received by the Smithsonian since a shipment by a German collector in the 1890s. Some of the specimens arrived alive, making it possible to study their anatomy for the first time, and they have found Washington's alien climate so attractive that they have already begun to reproduce themselves. Old's prize find: a stream-bed that was paved with Semisulcospira amurensis, a carrier of the lung-fluke larva which causes a disease with symptoms often confused with those of tuberculosis...