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When war came studious, hard-working Lyman Lemnitzer was a major who had taken fullest advantage of the educational system by which the Army developed its peacetime professional officer corps to an astonishing level of efficiency. He had taught physics and allied subjects at West Point, was a graduate of the Command and General Staff School and the Army War College, and was accounted one of the Army's finest staff officers...
...city-room earthquake rocked the morning San Francisco Chronicle, and 38 staffers disappeared from view, including Boy Wonder Editor Paul Smith (TIME, Dec. 22, 1952). Before the shakeup, the Chronicle had a studious and often dull international bent, a slipping circulation of 155,205 (down 20,356 in five years), and an annual deficit of $1,000,000. Last week, edited as though the world began at San Francisco Bay and ended at the Golden Gate, the Chronicle was proudly-and accurately-calling itself the nation's fastest-growing major daily both in ads and circulation...
...Trottenberg, in a new and commendable deviation from the ways of his Puritan predecessors, has now decided that the draft-induced chills of those who live in the older Yard dormitories are no longer necessary to produce a properly studious outlook...
...Mahayana Buddhist School. His mother was the only female he was allowed to receive within his household of servants, monks, abbots and the State Oracle, given to appropriately vague pronouncements ("A powerful foe threatens . . ."). The few Western visitors who, bearing sacred scarves, got audiences, found him a studious, insatiably curious and dedicated boy. He had a passion for cameras and for everything electrical, but he once observed to a visitor: "It is funny that the former body [i.e., the 13th Dalai Lama] was so fond of horses and that they mean so little...
Last week the Daily Times got a new managing editor: studious, gregarious John Nicholas Popham, 47, for the past eleven years the New York Times's chief Southern correspondent. Johnny Pop-ham's appointment completed the replacement of the paper's aging top brass that was started 16 months ago when Ben Hale Golden, 47, became publisher...