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Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, J. A. C. Fagginer Auer, Parkman Professor of Theology, and William Thomson, Jewett Professor of Arabic, leave the faculty on July 1 because of age. Cadbury is 71, Auer 72, and Thomson 66. While the regular retirement age is 65, professors are often given considerable tenure extensions...
...Mclntyre gold mine in Timmins, Ont. It was during the Depression; the price of gold had jumped from $20.67 to $35 an ounce, and he earned $45 a week as a drill bit sharpener. Three years later, he met a man by the name of Roy Thomson (TIME, Sept. 14, 1953), who had bought and turned the local weekly into a daily called the Timmins Press. Copps got a cub reporter's job at $8 a week. In four years he was news editor. He then left to go to the Ottawa Journal, which wanted a French-speaking reporter...
...Petersburg, Fla., Outfielder Bobby Thomson of the Milwaukee Braves made a hard and costly slide into second while trying to break up a Yankee double play. His spikes caught in the dirt, his right ankle broke in three places, and Thomson was lost to the Braves for at least two months...
...Elis, winners of the IC4A track crown last Saturday, took first places with Stu Thomson in the weights, Milk Stanley in the 1000 yard run and the two mile relay, and Bill Donegan, a tie in the pole vault...
Adaptor Valency's English version is excellent prose. But dramatically, Ondine suffers from too much prose-or at any rate, too little poetry. Virgil Thomson's evocative incidental music suggests a tale better adapted to opera or ballet. For, however ironic and sophisticated, Giraudoux has not brought a new dimension, or even any very striking overtones, to an old story. What the tale gains in philosophical embroideries it more than loses in fairy-tale magic and lyrical feeling. It seems neither simple nor complex enough; in a certain prettiness and lifelessness, it suggests not the court magician...