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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When President Conant gave the annual Terry Lectures in New Haven last May, he provided Yale men with an unprecedented coming-attractions view of a new Harvard course. Based on the Terry Lectures, "On Understanding Science" in form is an argument for a new kind of science course for laymen, a course which President Conant calls "a tremendous extrapolation from any educational experiments of which I am aware...
Hours before the funeral, umbrellas bobbed along the sidewalks in front of St. Paul's Cathedral. Along Detroit's Woodward Ave., the curious hung out of windows, perched on roofs and climbed the trees to get a better view. At the cathedral's entrance, the limousines disgorged the auto city's great. From a maroon Lincoln limousine, Clara Bryant Ford stepped out, leaning on the arm of her grandson, Henry. Inside St. Paul's, in a sealed casket, lay the pinch-faced, fragile remains of her husband...
...forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object he took from the salver; it was not sacred. He simply picked up the large yellow, celluloid comb (lacking three teeth) and combed the patriarchal hair and beard in full view of the congregation...
...soon proved himself wrong. When the operator of a fledgling airline, Pacific Air Transport, was granted a $5,000 loan, Patterson was put on the account. As most airlines were then regarded as being in the same class as fly-by-night carnivals, the bank took a somewhat dim view of the loan. Patterson brightened his employer's view by getting the loan paid off, but he soon found himself more interested in flying than in banking. Through his new concern with aviation he met the late P. G. Johnson, president of Boeing Aircraft, who was then helping William...
Meanwhile, the Harvard Liberal Union, anticipating that attempts might be made to prevent AYD from obtaining a charter in view of the recent statement by a House Committee declaring them Communist, came out strongly in favor of the group's request. Backing "the fundamental right of students to organize for political action," the HLU executive committee made it clear that it had different principles from and had no connection with the AYD, but believed that its point of view should be heard. The statement added: "We further believe that if AYD receives a charter, its attempts to express...