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...three-story building in Washington, D.C. last week, a woman whose legs have been withered by polio fitted plastic legs on torn dolls. Nearby, a blind man who had lost his sight in an explosion expertly tacked new upholstery on a frayed Willard Hotel chair. Around them, dozens of other disabled men & women worked busily in the headquarters of the Goodwill Industries of America...
Appointment of Professor Willard V. Quine of Harvard University as Eastman Professor from the United States to the University of Oxford for the academic year 1953-54 was announced yesterday. Professor Quine has taught philosophy at Harvard since...
...fifth great production plant of the Atomic Energy Commission will be built somewhere in the Ohio River Valley. AEC General Manager Marion Willard Boyer announced last week that the Ohio Valley was selected because it has a good water supply and because power can be generated cheaply with coal mined near by. When completed in about four years, the plant will need 1,800,000 kw.-enough for a city of 2,500,000 inhabitants. Boyer reassured the prospective neighbors: the plant will be no more dangerous, he said, than any other large industry...
...Grandson of William C. Whitney, Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, who built a $100 million fortune from trains, trams and tobacco. Whitney's father, Willard, was a Morgan partner who founded the New Republic, which Whitney's brother, Michael, still hopefully runs...
...Other leaders: Novelist Richard (Native Son) Wright, Poet Langston (One Way Ticket) Hughes, Novelist Willard (We Fished All Night) Motley...