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Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor. Born 38 years ago in Kansas, he graduated (1925) from the University of California, where he studied physics and mathematics. He taught math at a military academy for a year, took to writing short stories. Unwilling to capitalize on his father's fame, he used the pseudonym of "John Le Bar." Liberty found out who he was some years ago; since then he has signed his own name to his fiction...
Died. James Weber Linn, 63, "most popular professor" at the University of Chicago where he taught English for 40 years, Illinois State Legislator, nephew and biographer of Jane Addams; at Lakeside, Mich...
Anything but a politico is new Assistant Currie. Short, Scottish Nova Scotian Currie went to the London School of Economics, thence to graduate work at Harvard. Duly Ph.D.'d, he taught Harvard boys from 1927 to 1934 that the purpose of business is profit. In 1934, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s then economic soothsayer (and still his privy counselor), conservative Chicago Professor Jacob (Balanced Budget) Viner, induced Currie to leave Harvard, made him his assistant. Later that year, Chairman Marriner Stoddard (Unbalanced Budget) Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board spotted Currie for his technical qualifications, made him Assistant...
...almost one-third as large as all Canada. Under Russian tutelage the Mongol revolutionaries have attempted to transform into a semi-modern state a nation whose citizens were nomads with a way of life unchanged in a thousand years. The descendants of Ghengis Khan's warriors have been taught to drive tanks and trucks and fly airplanes. The Republic now has an Army estimated at 50.000 men and Soviet Russia has seen to it that the People's Government does not lack planes for all emergencies...
...Murderers of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1934, Nazis have been taught to believe that Cardinal Innitzer could have successfully interceded for the assassins before they were executed...