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...second year of Galbraith's leave expires late this March, and two years is usually the absolute limit Faculty members are allowed to be absent from the University in Government service and still retain their appointments...
Beckwith told questioners that he got a job as chauffeur and valet for Bernstein through "mutual friends" after deserting the Marine Corps in September, had lammed off with the Lincoln for a three weeks' toot. Said absent-minded Maestro Bernstein, who apparently forgot to report the theft: "All I know is that he let me out at a recital on Nov. 24 and never did pick me up again...
...controversy has been particularly acute because a group of about a dozen professors, not realizing that Hunt's policy would come up for vote, or that it would even be proposed, left the meeting just before Hunt spoke and were absent during the voting...
...some style with his sex, producer John Millet wisely called on Ciji Ware to choreograph the show. Unhappily, Act I has only one production number for Miss Ware to handle, so most of the hootchie-kootchie was left to the absent Mr. Graham-White to deal with; and his bad taste is consistent. I like as much kootch in my hootch as the next man, but there were moments when I felt myself compromised by what was going on up there. For one example, instead of having Stephen Canfield (Daniel Cheever), Ninotcha's American, merely kiss his frosty Russian...
...bother Bohr, despite his part-Jewish ancestry. Then, in 1943, he learned that he was slated for arrest. That same night Bohr, his wife and his son Aage sneaked aboard the fishing boat Sea Star and escaped to Sweden. (He was the kind of man about whom absent-minded professor stories are told, and legend has it that he had kept a bottle of heavy water, then important for atomic research, hidden in his refrigerator; in his hasty departure he left the heavy water behind and rescued an ordinary bottle of beer...