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Western Reserve's 28th headmaster, John W. Hallowell, 37, has a lot in common with a fellow Harvardman, Phillips Exeter's new Principal William G. Saltonstall, 40 (TIME, June 17). Both are tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and lean, with rugged Yankee faces. At Harvard they won crew and hockey letters, went on to teach at prep schools (Hallowell at Groton, Saltonstall at Exeter). Both served in the Pacific, ended up as lieutenant commanders...
...General Martin (World War I regimental commander in the 28th Division) lost no time getting his campaign rolling. In Pittsburgh to address an anniversary party for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., he found pickets blocking his entrance to a hotel. Governor and pickets chatted (see cut). Said he: "I believe in collective bargaining, and I believe in such peaceful picketing." The strikers let him pass. No feelings were hurt...
...Motherland Impregnable." Last week Russia gave her neighbors a relatively quiet time. Stalin did use the 28th anniversary of the Red Army's founding to tell his comrades that they must raise still higher "the military and economic might of the Soviet state [and] make the borders of our motherland impregnable against enemies...
...whit disturbed, Attlee doodled diligently during the speeches. Afterward he and Bevin went out together. Their destination: the Soviet Embassy, to drink Russia's health in vintage vodka, celebrating the 28th anniversary of the October Revolution...
Both factions concentrated on the 28th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration (Nov. 2).* For both it was an unhappy milestone-for the Jews because of a promise made and unfulfilled, for the Arabs because the promise had been made at all. In advance, the Arabs had proclaimed a general strike throughout the Near East on that day. But the Jews struck first...