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Behind his back, some of the faculty call him "Rufus Rex." Last week Rufus Rex-Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, 70 -quit after 24 years as president of the University of Southern California. In U.S.C.'s official handout, he struck out the word "resigned," left it reading that he had been "elevated" to chancellor, an advisory post. Three days before, a committee that claimed to represent 90% of the faculty had appealed to U.S.C.'s trustees to investigate the "indefensible, inequitable" salaries imposed by Rufus...
Four months ago, Von KleinSmid reported to California's Board of Education that the "scale" for full professors was from $4,200 to $7,500. Comparing their salary figures at a January protest meeting, 200 faculty members discovered that full professors averaged only $3,600, and that one (a woman) made only $2,600. Von KleinSmid thereupon granted some raises, which the faculty committee calls "utterly inadequate...
...George von Lengerke Meyer...
Died. Clemens August Cardinal von Galen, 68, towering, recently elevated former bishop of Minister; in Frankfurt am Main. He was the second new cardinal to die within a fortnight (first: John Cardinal Glennon of St. Louis-TIME, March 18). His wartime sermons sometimes bluntly defied the Gestapo by spreading the suppressed news of drastic bomb damage, sometimes adroitly jabbed at Nazi ideology...
Died. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, 67, who as Hitler's first Minister of War began to build up the almost-all-conquering Wehrmacht; of a heart attack; in Nürnberg. In 1938, ostensibly because he married his "socially impossible" stenographer, ardent Nazi von Blomberg lost his job at the insistence of the Officer Corps, spent World War II on Capri in retirement...