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...under arms; this costs the world about $27,400,000,000 a year, not counting what is spent on atomic and other secret research. These figures are the conclusion reached after a worldwide survey conducted by the New York Times under direction of its able Military Editor Hanson W. Baldwin. He believes that despite the disappearance of Germany and Japan as military powers, there are more soldiers today than...
Also in Los Angeles, the Rev. W. O. H. Garman, secretary of the strictly Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, fired another short round of bird shot in his little organization's long standing feud with the mighty Federal Council of Churches.* Angry Parson Garman did not approve one bit of the Federal Council's national Conference on the Church and Economic Life, held last February at Pittsburgh (TIME, March 3). Cried...
...Appropriations Committee is slashing almost every Government agency in sight, Evans will ask for $11,346,000-nearly twice last year's alltime high. There is a crisis in his library's crates: millions of new and wartime acquisitions (among them the Booker T. Washington and George W. Norris papers) are still unsorted and uncatalogued. The library needs double its present staff (1,910) to handle this backlog. Warns Evans: "Merely by standing still, [the library may] subside into a sterility from which it could never quite recover...
Lowell: Stroke, Prescott; 7, Roll; 6, Erskine; 5, Morse; 4, Winslow; 3, Potter; 2, Hellor; bow, Watson; cox, Allen. Kirkland: Stroke, Shoemaker; 7, Murphy; 6, Cadoret; 5, Bingham; 4, Callahan; 3, Palmer; 2, Brooks; bow, W. Lowe; cox, Harris. Leverett: Stroke, Hopewell; 7, McKearney; 6, Friedman; 5, Mayer; 4, Baker; 3, Clark; 2, Lacy; bow, Haynes; cox, Elliot...
...officers of the inter-House Committee are Peter H. Clayton '50, chairman, and John W. Susskind '46, secretary. House representatives include: Adams, John K. 'Lally '49; Eliot, Ralph Griss '49; Dudley, Laurence A. McGrath, Jr. '46; Dunster, Susskind; Kirkland, Robert E. Kohn '49; Leverett, Frederick D. Houghteling '50; Lowell, John W. McNulty '48; and Winthrop, Carles A. Arosemena...