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Today, however, there are eight endowed chairs for university professors--three of them vacant at this moment. And the whole concept has proved so successful that just last summer President Pusey announced two new professorships--the Ford and Lowell chairs--to fulfill the same purpose as the university professorships on the college level...
...years since Conant's original proposal, funds for eight such unrestricted chairs as he envisaged have been donated. The newest chair, the Loeb University Professorship, is as yet unfilled. The retirements of Nobel prize physicist P. W. Bridgman '04 and of lawyer Zechariah Chafee, Jr. leaves two more chairs vacant. Holding the five remaining chairs are theologian Paul Tillich, economist Sumner H. Slichter, Middle East authority Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, classicist Werner W. Jaeger, and language expert I.A. Richards
...Delhi: John Sherman Cooper's post, vacant since Cooper resigned to run for the Senate, will be taken by Ellsworth Bunker, retiring American National Red Cross president* and a topnotch ambassador to Italy and Argentina under Harry Truman...
...believe, Giant's rendition is not entirely unjustified. Similarly its typical characters run according to the authentic mold--Texan males are much like Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson, strong and strongly ruled by Hoyle; their women, as in the movie, are in at least a 5-1 ratio of the vacant-minded to the thinking. The people do herd and smile and "honey-chile," even though not as obviously as in Giant. But after all, these characteristics can be found elsewhere in America. If the scenery is less barren in Ohio, the people are essentially the same...
Spring was on the march in Uruguay, rainbowing roadsides and vacant lots with vivid wild flowers. Cafe owners set out sidewalk tables. At coastal resort hotels, workmen began taking down shutters and painting woodwork in preparation for summer throngs, perennial in a leisure-minded, seashore-loving country that celebrates a national holiday (Dec. 8) called the Day of the Beaches...