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Professor Whitehead, a distinguished philosopher, retired in 1937 after 12 years on the University faculty. Previous to coming to Harvard, he had taught at Trinity College, Cambridge, as a lecturer in mathematics and mechanics, and at the University of London he taught mathematics for ten years before becoming Dean of the Faculty of Science there...
...aviation industry had bid heavily for the war-taught savvy of top-ranking officers: A.T.C.'s Lieut. General Harold L. George now heads Peruvian International Airways at Lima at about $50,000 a year; strategic bombing expert Lieut. General Barney McK. Giles is vice president in charge of engineering for Air Associates Inc.; former War Shipping Administrator Vice Admiral Emory S. Land is president of the Air Transport Association...
Born & bred in Boston, the self-taught son of a hardware dealer, Homer sold his first drawings to Harper's Weekly at 21, went on to become a crack pictorial reporter of the Civil War and to record postwar life in the U.S. from New England farmyards to fashionable Long Branch, N. J. But he found his best subjects, and painted best, in solitude...
Life Begins at 50. After four long years, Rouault quit his job to study with famed Academician Gustave Moreau. Moreau taught young Rouault all he knew about painting and did his best to break Rouault's habit of moping about in cemeteries after school. When Moreau died, his house was turned into a memorial museum and Rouault, as the favorite pupil, was appointed curator. The sinecure kept Rouault going; his art sold hardly at all until he was past...
...Insight into natural law" is Author Wylie's proposed solution. Children, he demands, must be taught that they are animals, not souls. They must be suckled not on clerical and patriotic values, but on Darwinism, anthropology, ethnology, Freudianism (one of Author Wylie's wilder notions is that some children should be placed on an island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense...