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...Grant Wood's famed picture of him, Parson Weems peeps from behind a curtain as George Washington admits he chopped down the cherry tree. His friends would never recognize egg-bald George Dinsmore Stoddard as the parson; Grant Wood put a wig on him when he posed...
...many Americans would recognize the name of George Stoddard either, but he is one of the fastest rising men in U.S. education. At 49, he has already been, in succession, one of the nation's top child psychologists, New York State Commissioner of Education, chairman of the U.S. Education Mission to Japan, and one of five U.S. delegates to UNESCO. Last week, after ten months on the job, he was inducted as president of the University of Illinois, second largest...
...friend, recalling Stoddard's boyhood in Carbondale, Pa., has called him "one of the finest by-products of the anthracite industry." When gregarious George was a Penn State undergraduate, the only way his mother knew how many visiting fraternity brothers would be down for breakfast during vacations was to count the strange hats on the hall tree...
Speaking at ceremonies in honor of George Stoddard, newly-installed president of the University of Illinois, President Conant advocated the establishment of Federal aid for scientific schooling along the lines of the Taft bill now before Congress...
...clipping from Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, which had picked up TIME'S Radio story, complete with King's verse. There was no acknowledgement of copyright permission. Further, the Worker had made one of journalism's most painful errors : it had disinterred Stoddard King - identifying him as the "daily bard of the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review," Miss Sulzberger has felt fine ever since...