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...committee of History and Literature voted last sprig that the chairman of that committee and the chairman of the board of tutors in the department should be selected one from History and one from Literature. In accordance with this policy Howard E. Hugo, assistant professor in General Education and a specialist in literature, has replaced Robert S. Schwantes, whose field is history, as chairman of the board of Tutors...
...airfield outside London last week a British Overseas Airways Stratocruiser stood waiting, bathed in floodlights. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, wearing a sprig of white heather in his lapel, told newsmen that he was "soberly optimistic" about the prospects of his forthcoming meeting with President Truman. Then the airplane, which bore the name Cathay, took off for Washington, carrying Attlee toward a conference which he hoped would prevent a war with Communist China. With him, the plane carried the hopes & fears of most of western Europe...
Early this week, according to his own wishes, the body of Bernard Shaw was cremated at Golders Green; a few close friends and no clergymen were present. A sprig of rosemary from the garden of his famed correspondent, the late Actress Ellen Terry, lay on his casket during the trip to the crematory. "I want my ashes mingled with those of my wife," Shaw had told Nancy Astor. "After that, you may bury me wherever you like." Likeliest resting place: Westminster Abbey...
Wizard with Roses. Like many another top Marine officer, Smith joined the Corps after a civilian education (with military trimmings). Sprig of a family that settled in Virginia in 1740, he was born (1893) in Menard, Texas. His father, a lawer, died when Oliver was six. His mother, a woman of fortitude and strong Christian Science principles, took the boy and two other children to the sleepy little town of Santa Cruz, in California, raised the youngsters in her church, of which Marine Smith is still a quietly devout member...
...trucks I saw senior Korean unit commanders sitting among their troops, wearing white gloves, and carrying an official sword in one hand, and in the other a tree bough held over their heads like an umbrella. The South Koreans' terror of the Yaks' strafing has turned a sprig of leaves into a symbol of security...