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Cherington, an expert in transportation and government regulation of industry, said that a rural area with adequate means of access would be the best location for the academic community of the future. Peterborough, he said, "has a lot of fine, vacant land. And it will be closer to New York by automobile," he said, "particularly when they get this new Buck Rodgers highway...
...School professors urged last night that Judge Learned Hand '93, retired judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, be given an interim appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hand would occupy the seat to be made vacant next month by Sherman Minton's retirement...
...whether or not this is true, he has certainly contributed the only things which have any considerable merit: the cover and his study of "Lawrison, Mass." It is too bad that he did not get his board to authorize the promised reply to i.e., which would have filled the vacant spaces and perhaps have aroused slightly more interest than the present production...
...eleven days, leaders of the Democratic Party increased the pressure on New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman, Herbert Lehman-singly and collectively-begged Wagner to accept the nomination for the U.S. Senate seat that will be left vacant by Lehman's retirement. Stevenson needed him: on Bob Wagner's coattails, there was a chance that Adlai might win New York's 45 electoral votes. Last week Wagner finally announced his "considered" decision...
...chairman and chief executive officer of Canada's Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., largest farm-implement maker in the British Empire (1955 world sales: $368 million). He replaced James Stuart Duncan, a company hand for 46 years, who resigned as president and board chairman. The post of president remains vacant. Toronto-born and educated (University of Toronto '14), Phillips won a colonelcy in the British army in World War I, returned home and went into glass manufacture, did so well that in World War II he headed up the 55-acre, Government-operated Research Enterprises (radar and optical firing...