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...long would it take to reform Japanese education? Barnard's Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve, one of the traveling educators, said: "We'll have to wait 25 years to see how it works out." Guessed Chairman Stoddard: "A long time-decades...
...group was a mixture of scientific and industrial talent. Chairman was David E. Lilienthal, head of TVA. The members, besides Dr. Oppenheimer, were Chester I. Barnard, president of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.; Dr. Charles Allen Thomas, vice president of Monsanto Chemical Co.; Harry A. Winne, G.E.'s vice president in charge of engineering. The eldest member was Mr. Barnard, 59; the youngest, Dr. Oppenheimer...
...staff of the Pacific Stars and Stripes had been fighting its own little war-mostly against its superior officers. In January the G.I.s publicly accused the "brass" of trying to muzzle their Tokyo daily. A month later Sergeant Kenneth Pettus, the managing editor, and Corporal Barnard Rubin, the star columnist, were fired from.the paper, ordered to Okinawa for reassignment. Explained an officer: the two had flunked a "loyalty check...
...Lise Meitner, 67, refugee German physicist, pioneer contributor to the atomic bomb, was the Women's National Press Club's choice for "woman of the year." Also huzzah'd: Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, 68, of Manhattan's Barnard College; All-But-Abstract Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, 58; Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 36; Novelist I. A. R. Wylie (The Young In Heart), 60; Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Esther Loring Richards, 60; Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster, 40; Radio Program Director Margaret Cuthbert, 52; New York Times Editorialist AnneO'Hare McCormick, sixtyish; International Business Machines Vice President Ruth...
...Manhattan, Barnard College's Philologist William Cabell Greet agreed with Shaw generally, but didn't think any democratic government-U.S. or British-could get anywhere against the sentiment that people attach to spelling. Said he: "If the Japanese had dictated peace, they might have been able to dictate a simplified spelling...