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...American Council of Learned Societies last week handed out $64,000 in grants and fellowships to 57 youngish U. S. scholars. Some things to be studied: Islamic architecture in Persia; the history of Chinese law; the Nootka language of Vancouver Island; Latin geomancy; Gullah; Roman pavements; Ibrahim ibn Yaqub's Commentary on Genesis; Widsith...
...resourceful pedagog gets about a good bit. That thought might have occurred, 14 years ago, to a tall, youngish psychology professor whose grey eyes looked out from droopy eyelids at the leisurely charm of the University of North Carolina. Harry Woodburn Chase had been born in 1883 into a family in Groveland, Mass, which was said to have moved only five miles in 300 years. At Dartmouth he had taken his A.B.; at Clark University in Worcester (Mass.) his doctorate. Married to a Midwesterner, he went to North Carolina's Chapel Hill...
Chief obstruction this time is Vial, youngish interior decorator, whose cottage neighbors Colette's on the Mediterranean shore. Here she has retired with her dog. her cats to watch the hours pass of her declining day. Swimming parties, summer diversions with her neighbors fill whatever gaps tending her animals, her garden, or her memories may leave. But Vial...
...executive committee of Chase National Bank and Chase Securities Corp. In 1927 he suddenly resigned and practically retired from active business. Two years later he accepted the presidency of Interstate Equities Corp.. an investment trust sponsored by Banc-america-Blair. Fortnight ago Interstate was sold to youngish Wallace Groves, an independent capitalist who got his start in the small-loan business, but Mr. Tinker remained as president...
From the Treasury basement, where gold is stored, to the east wing of the White House runs a dark little tunnel under East Executive Avenue. Many times through this tunnel last week passed a thickset, youngish man with a big nose and eyes of clearest blue. He wore a linen suit. His teeth bit hard into a Benson & Hedges cigar. He walked fast. Out of the tunnel he skirted the rear portico of the White House (where the presidential kennels are), paced down the west colonnade, marched unannounced by a back door into the offices of the President...