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When wise and tolerant President William Allan Neilson kissed his "2,000 daughters" goodbye and retired after 22 years, Smith College searched hard for a successor (TIME, Oct. 30, 1939). British-born, Oxford-educated Herbert John Davis took the job with misgivings: "What can the man do that cometh after the king?" Like Neilson, Davis had been an English professor (his specialty: Jonathan Swift); Smith trustees hoped to see the Neilson miracle reworked. But in eight years as president, Davis proved more distinguished for his prose style than his administrative tact. Last week, at 55, Herbert John Davis announced from...
...those convicted on Gouzenko's evidence, eight are behind bars: ex-M.P. Fred Rose in St. Vincent de Paul, near Montreal; the others in Kingston Penitentiary, where all are rated as "reformable" under the prison grading system. In Britain, Scientist Dr. Allan Nunn May is in prison (ten years), but British officials will not say where...
Last week SEC proved up another set of facts. It quizzed a Cleveland lawyer named Allan Hull, who had been waiting in the county court building in Detroit for the suit to be filed. Hull admitted that he had known the day before that the suit was going to be filed...
Other Faculty members elected to the Academy include, in the field of mathematical and physical sciences: William Henry McAdams, Julian Seymour Schwinger, Hassler Whitney, Robert Burns Woodward, and Oscar Zariski; in natural and physiological sciences: Allan Macy Butler, Edward Sears Castle '25, Edward Delos Churchill, John Rock '14, and George Wald; in the social arts; Charles Allerton Coolidge '17; and in the humanities: Frederick May Eliot...
...week's end, in Rosemere, Quebec, with daughter Roberta Gail, 16, as maid of honor, Jessica Allan was married in dusty pink to Garnet Coulter in a blue-striped double-breasted. Mrs. Coulter told newsmen that she had no idea where the honeymoon would be spent, but the mayor had "quite a few problems" to attend to back home. In Winnipeg the City Council got set for a bang-up reception, cagily waited to see what the Coulters would like for a present...