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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the business manager of the '47-'48 Class Album, scheduled to appear next May, phoned Lehman Hall to ask for the list of purveyors that the University has furnished student publications in the past years. The subsequent refusal to give any sort of list has resulted in the probable revision of plans for the Album, as well as the '51 Freshman Red Book. As soon as an outcry arose at this unforeseen, crippling move, University officials stiffened, a hasty conference between Lehman and University Halls resulted in a hidden-ball play as to the responsibility, a throwing...
...Kuling, China's cool summer capital, who may be able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants who serve tea and Chinese chow at thoughtful intervals...
Throughout the long debate Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko listened in silence. He has opposed the creation of any sort of commission and apparently was content to wait until his own plan was taken up after discussion was completed on the U. S. resolution...
Successful Debris. Previous cyclotrons, they explained, had just chipped away at the atom, knocking off two or three small particles. But the 184-incher's bullets cause such havoc in atoms that researchers have so far been unable to sort out all the debris. Said one of the California scientists: "With the old cyclotron of 225 tons [60 inches], we could knock two or three floors off a 50-story building, or maybe add a floor or two. But with the new cyclotron, we can knock that 50-story building into a flock of four-room bungalows, with...
...Ground, where the commonsensical common man will always ultimately take his stand. The trouble is that certain fascist "extremes" have lately had a curious way of coming to power and hence locally ceasing to be extremes. Liberal Germans have testified that they found the early Hitler quite the same sort of unpromising lowbrow crank as the Crimson evidently imagines Gerald Smith to be. Well, the Reverend Smith is not even now an ineffectual angel; he is held by many, and with reason, to have been the main organizer of the wartime Detroit race-riot. This would suggest that there...