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...real tests were just beginning. As the strain of the big tournaments begins to tell, and the weather heats up enough to wilt the elder statesmen of the game, the crocodiles would be getting some rugged competition from younger saurians. Chief among them...
Once again the time had come for U.S. colleges and universities to honor the nation's notables. In solemn ceremonies on scores of U.S. campuses last week, statesmen, artists, writers, scholars and soldiers were one by one receiving the scrolls and hoods of brand-new honorary degrees...
...usual, the statesmen were prominently represented. Governor Earl Warren of California won a Doctorate of Political Science from the University of Alaska. Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois got LL.D.s from both Ohio's Oberlin College and Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Western Reserve in Ohio honored two Senators: Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Ohio's Robert A. Taft...
There will be no special celebration this June to commemorate the occasion. But scholarly, debonair Whitney Griswold might well stand in awe of his responsibility. By virtue of his office as 16th president of Yale, he has become automatically one of the top educational statesmen in the U.S., the head of one of the world's dozen ranking universities, the custodian of a great tradition. The university which grew from the little school founded 250 years ago in a farmhouse at Branford, Conn, descends in a direct line from such ancient seats of learning as the University of Paris...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker: "It's a tragic thing to have happen at a time like this to one of the greatest soldier-statesmen America has ever...