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Some of the defendants, long since bored with jeering and demonstrating in court, took court-approved vacations to engage in more exciting business. As the trial dragged on, Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn-who opened the proceedings with a Nazi salute and once appeared in court in a pale blue satin nightdress-was teaching a night class in stenography. Lawrence ("The Brain") Dennis, top intellectual of U.S. fascism, spent his mornings browsing sedately in the Library of Congress. Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling was touring the Midwest, singing anti-Semitic and anti-rationing songs to America-First rallies...
...will outlive Thomas Edison's, Tesla's admirers hold that he and Michael Faraday were the greatest electrical discoverers of modern times. Last week one admirer, who according to the inventor himself understood him "better than any man alive," published the first Tesla biography-Prodigal Genius (Ives Washburn; $3.75). The author: John J. O'Neill, science editor of the New York Herald Tribune...
...expects to return to greater emphasis on training "scientific geographers" and encouraging them with funds and instruments to undertake explorations into the far corners of the earth. In the peace time years of the late twenties and early thirties expeditions traveled to Alaska, China, Cuba, and South America. Bradford Washburn, former instructor at the Institutes who scaled many northern peaks is now designing clothing for the Quartermaster Corps to be used by our Article troops...
Baccalaureate services, usually held on the Sunday of Commencement week, have been given up for the duration of the war. The Reverend Henry B. Washburn, D.D., Dean Emeritus of the Episcopal Theological School and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Preachers, will recognize the presence of college seniors in the conduct of the service on Sunday, June 25, although he will not present a formal baccalaureate sermon. Special pews in the Memorial Church will be reserved for the seniors who are graduating and for their families and friends...
Baccalaureate services have been given up for the duration. The Reverend Henry B. Washburn, D.D., Dean Emeritus of the Episcopal Theological School and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Preachers, will, however, recognize the presence of College Seniors during the service on Sunday, June...