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Died. Baron Lindsay of Birker, 72 (Alexander Dunlop ["Sandy"] Lindsay), for 25 years the learned master of Balliol College, Oxford; at Stoke-on-Trent, England. Fabian Socialist Lindsay, more noted as an educator than as a scholar, believed that English university education is too stereotyped (mere intellectual training produces only "the clever ass," he once said). In 1938, he stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a "popular front," anti-Munich candidate from Oxford. His lectures on political theory after World War I prompted one hearer to say: "One had the sense of being present at an occasion." His son Michael...
...Britain, which used to ship abroad 44 million tons a year, no longer produces enough coal to stoke its own fires and furnaces. The new Tory government had laid down the most stringent household coal rationing in the nation's history: an average of less than two tons for the entire winter...
...when Davie starts raving about the roadside diner he can buy for $300, and spouting the combination and cash contents of the rickety old safe, Pa Eder-ly's eyes blink without tears. Pretending a fear of robbers, Pa and the family stoke the safe with $300. "Given money, wheedled money, is always back to wheedle again," Pa muses. "With taken money it's a different story; it goes and stays." That night, as the rest huddle sadly near an upstairs window, Davie skedaddles with the loot, goes "to make his million, down the black road...
...Sure," says the All-American. "I can understand why you want to go to Stevens Institute of Technology. You want to be an engineer, but they haven't got any big-time sports there, and if you can get past the entrance exams, you'll have to wash dishes, stoke furnaces and damn near starve to get by. Now, if you come to my place, we'll give you free room, board, and tuition, a good job in the summer and enough spending money so you'll never have to take your girl home in the subway or even...
Last week Harold Stoke, at the end of a failing mission, announced that he was fed up, would resign as of Feb. 1. With brisk efficiency, the board of supervisors picked a new president: Mississippi-born Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, 61, able wartime commander of the VIII Army Corps in Europe, since 1939 (with time out for war service) L.S.U's comptroller. Harold Stoke's new mission: to take "some time out for battle fatigue," then look for another...