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...program board, Henry Steinhardt '42, Robert T. Mack, Jr. '42, Alfred Lurie '43, Curtis A. Bush '43, Richard P. Kleeman '44, and Howard M. Spiro '44 were selected. Victor M. Kumin '43 and Richard L. Weinberg '43 were picked for the production staff...
University of Chicago has Nobel-prize-winning Physicist James Franck; Eduard Benes; Italy's famed Physicist Bruno Rossi and Novelist Giuseppe Borgese; distinguished Art Teacher Ulrich A. Middeldorf. At California Institute of Technology, German-born Dr. Spiro Kyropoulos is doing important research on oil; at University of California at Los Angeles is famed Composer Arnold Schönberg. At Columbia University is renowned Viennese Neurologist Otto Marburg. Alvin Johnson's own Institute has on its graduate faculty ("University in Exile") Fernando de los Rios, onetime Spanish Ambassador; Erwin Piscator, onetime director of Berlin's People...
...scholarship, Donovan S. Cornell, Duke University. Anna C. Ames tuition scholarship, Richard E. Schultes 1G. Austin fellowships to: John B. Christopher 3G, Malcolm E. Cross 1G, Herbert M. Irwin Jr., '37, University of Illinois, Andrew O. Jaszi, Oberlin College. John A. Lester Jr., Haverford. Mourice Matloff 2G. Herbert M. Spiro, University of California. Wallace A. Sprague, Oberlin College. Heinz Thannhauser, University of Cambridge, England. Robin M. Williams, North Carolina Agricultural Station. Benjamin M. Woodbridge...
Sharp-witted Amster Spiro, city editor of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal-American, knows little about playing parlor games, including bridge, but he does know a good thing when he sees it. Over a year ago, when he read that "Monopoly" was selling by millions, his newspaper mind envied such profitable circulation. Forthwith he devised a newspaper game, "Flash News." It was too complicated to sell much more than 10,000 sets (at $2.50) and is presently being simplified. From "Flash News" Editor Spiro did learn, however, that there is money in games...
Last week Amster Spiro plunged deeper into the game business. He bought two-thirds interest in Bridge World (circ. 10,000) and Games Digest (circ. 10,000) from Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson. Mr. Culbertson, who started both magazines, remains as part owner and editor, but Hearstman Spiro announced a new policy. Henceforth Bridge World, instead of being Mr. Culbertson's private forum, will invite other experts to debate their views in its pages. Whatever Mr. Spiro's policy, he will have difficulty matching the frankness of the final Bridge World editorial while under Culbertson ownership: "Every bridge writer...