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Arthur E. Sutherland, Jr., now a professor at Cornell Law School, and Stanley S. Surrey, member of the faculty of the University of California School of Jurisprudence, yesterday were named professors at the Law School. They will take their positions July...
Sutherland will teach in the fields of Constitutional and Commercial Law, and Surrey will conduct work in Taxation...
...county of Surrey, near London, was the first to take Parliament up. The county council went shopping for a suitable location, four years ago chose Ottershaw, an imposing Italianate country house with formal gardens, fishing ponds and a wooded 160-acre park. The council hired Arthur Edward Foot, a onetime assistant master at Eton, to supervise remodeling and act as headmaster. A year and a half ago, Foot and nine assistant masters opened Ottershaw School to its first 70 students...
Busy Bulldozers. So far, thought Surrey, the Ottershaw experiment was working pretty well. Enrollment had jumped to 120, and there were twelve applicants for every vacancy. Last month onetime Rugby Headmaster Percy H. B. Lyon called on Parliament to establish 300 new schools along similar lines. A more practical tribute came from the Labor Government itself. Though recently the government had been obliged to order cutbacks in new construction, including school building, it had given Ottershaw the green light. Bulldozers and construction crews were busy last week on the foundations for a new wing to house 60 more Ottershavians next...
Died. Sidney Arthur ("Sid") Field, 45, bulb-nosed British comic who soared to fame in wartime revues (Strike a New Note, Strike It Again); in Richmond, Surrey. Disdaining the fast gag, Field mixed the pathetic and the preposterous into an art reminiscent of Chaplin's, but with a slapdash gusto...