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...Reader Campbell is right: the absent-minded Prime Minister's hat is going left...
Although the "Handicap" is open to anyone in the University most interest will focus on the six harriers who will be starting from scratch. They are Ardan Albee '50, Bill Baker '50, Jack Cogan '50, Vince Moriarty '47, Paul Friedrich '49, and Charley Worth '47. Absent from this list will be Captain Huna Rosenfeld '46, Bill O'Connor '49, Herby Pratt '46, and Frank Gurley...
...heels of this news came the announcement that T.V., absent from public life since his resignation as Premier last spring (TIME, March 10), was back in harness. It was a time when China needed all the able leaders she could find. T.V.'s new job: Governor of his native Kwangtung Province. There, he would be able to get some first-hand experience in governing a province-which might prove quite a job, since it has been reported that there is a separatist movement in Kwangtung. He also might find time to squelch smuggling...
...that the kind of discussion [in the Great Books groups] is much different from the impression given. In a discussion whose single dominant character is that no one knows very much about the book under consideration, the absence of an informed person usually means that . . . intellectual humility is also absent. What usually happens is that people say, in a very solemn voice, things they would not dream of saying anywhere else...
...land. Less people. More elbowroom." Some thought they would have a better chance than in the U.S. to start businesses of their own. Many had been taken with the Australian climate and pace of living. Wrote ex-G.I. George Mason: "[Down there], Babbitts and go-getters are conspicuously absent. The people are happy, and in no hurry to slaughter themselves...