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Every door in the Houses, Yard, and graduate schools will sound with the Harvard Food Relief Committee solicitor's knock starting today as 250 men start making the rounds for the world Student Service Fund, dedicated to keeping the overseas student movement alive...
...nudist magazines obscene, and therefore to be barred from the mails? No, said Post Office Solicitor Frank J. Delaney last week, after the first formal obscenity hearing since Esquire was cleared in 1946. In covering news among the uncovered, Naturel Herald of Sacramento had printed pictures of naked men & women at sunbathing camps. The pictures, the Post Office ruled, were "small, inoffensive and not posed for salacious effect." At the hearing, Herald Publisher Ivan Brovont apologized for his hoarse, thick voice; he had caught a bad cold, he said, from wearing clothes...
...Author. Peter Demianovich Ouspensky died last month in England, at 69, in the private obscurity wherein he had always preferred darkly to shine. His London solicitor believed that Ouspensky was "the greatest man alive." Sentiments like that of the solicitor were once held by various impressionable readers of A New Model of the Universe and Ouspensky's earlier Tertium Organum, a massive work of esoteric philosophy that Ouspensky wrote in Russia before World War I and first published in English in the U.S. in 1920. Moscow-born Ouspensky was at that time living in Constantinople. The late Viscountess Rothermere...
...confused with General Motors' President Charles Erwin Wilson. Other members: Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, C.I.O.'s James B. Carey, A.F.L.'s Boris Shishkin, College Presidents John S. Dickey of Dartmouth and Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina, ex-Assistant City Solicitor Sadie T. Alexander of Philadelphia, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst of New York, Lawyer Francis P. Matthews of Nebraska, A.V.C.'s Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Methodist Social Worker Mrs. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta, Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn of Long Island, the Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids...
...Senators in the face of this threat was not such as to allay suspicion: they had closed ranks, made it a party issue, and blocked the investigation. Beaten earlier, the Republicans tried a flank movement in the final hours by holding up confirmation of Democrat Philip B. Perlman as Solicitor General. It was 3:35 a.m. before they finally gave up. Perlman was confirmed. At 3:50, disgruntled, unshaven and bone-weary after three nights of cat naps on cloakroom cots, the Senators tramped out into the pre-dawn darkness. The first, seven-month session of the 80th Congress...