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...other Harvard entrance plans (Plan A, Plan B, and the previous upper seventh plan for certain schools in rural communities and small cities and towns which do not prepare regularly for the College Board examinations) still hold. and there is no intention on the part of Harvard to alter this program...
Though a court martial case may never be tried again, the sentence and every bit of evidence of every court martial are automatically reviewed by the Lords of the Admiralty, forming in effect the Navy's Supreme Court. They have the power to alter or reverse decisions. Last week the Navy's Lords sat down before a huge bundle of papers to review the Hood & Renown case without advocates, prosecutor or witnesses...
...title of business manager did small justice to Louis Wiley's journalistic functions. No mere countingroom man, he was Publisher Adolph Ochs's confidant, adviser, ambassador, and on occasion, alter ego. Just short of 40 years ago he first approached Mr. Ochs, who had bought the moribund Times, persuaded the publisher to hire him at $40 a week. He was then 26, and had pulled himself up from $6-a-week reporter to business manager of the Rochester Post-Express. He had much to do with the Times's prosperity and with its rigidly high standards...
...last week by historians as the moment when the Great Powers frankly abandoned all the hopes and pretenses of the post-War peace period and openly squared away to rearm. With only two exceptions, "national defense" is each government's official reason for rearming, but that does not alter the exciting spectacle of seven major nations simultaneously girding themselves to fight, on land as well...
...Berlin last week the Sosnowski case finally reached its grim denouement before the People's Court. This is packed exclusively with Hitler appointees, five of them aviators. Only the Realmleader can alter its judgments, which take precedence over the German Supreme Court, kicked by Nazi New Justice into discard. Normally the People's Court lets its sentences of death be known only after the guilty heads have been chopped. Last week by a great exception underground Berlin grapevines got out word that the Court had sentenced Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer to death...