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...Ireland expecting an easy conquest. After all, he is tall, dark-eyed, handsome, as capriciously intelligent and nearly as wordy as the Irish themselves. Descending on Dublin in the mid-1950s to study medi cine, Blaydon does battle - on the beaches, in the fields, in the streets - with a suc cession of colleens. Beautiful Theresa has a voice as misty as the mountains of Mourne, and a heart hard enough to splinter Cuchulainn's sword. After another fruitless try, with a girl named Oonagh, Blaydon comes to grips with Dymphna Uprichard (pronounced "Eweprichard"), a pale, leggy hoyden who adores...
...four years in the doldrums of peacetime Army life. Then he made his way into the Air Service, trained on Jennies and became a pursuit pilot. He rolled up 4,444 hours of single-engine flying time before he moved on to become one of the authors of U.S. suc cess in heavy aerial bombardment during World...
...soon to get a new General Superintendent. After 15 years in the office, the nearest a Universalist can come to being a bishop, Dr. Robert Cummins, 55, announced that he was retiring because "it has always been my custom to leave a church while I am still cherished." His suc cessor: peppy, Brooklyn-born Dr. Brainard Frederick Gibbons...
...John Albert Wilson, the Institute's young (40), affable director who suc ceeded Dr. Breasted, explained last week that the Institute used to get fat annual appropriations from the Rockefellers' General Education Board. In 1936 the Board, which had started to distribute its capital gave the Institute a final lump-sum endowment of $2,000,000. The Institute has since been operating mostly on the income from this, which amounts to about a third of the former yearly grants. Few other U. S. diggers are working the war-clouded Near East. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, however...
...scholastic standing is on the whole at a discount in this country," he admitted. Law is the only profession in which intellectual capacity alone is of much importance. "Imagination, originality, a spirit of adventure, stamina, courage,--a man must have all these in addition to brains to be a suc- cessful and useful citizen...