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...highest-ranking U.S. judge in Germany, bathes in controversy with the warm contentment most men reserve for their tubs. In 1930, as the nation's youngest federal judge, Clark briefly attained fame if not professional stature by declaring unconstitutional the Prohibition amendment to the Constitution, a feat requiring judicial originality, at least. He was quickly and unanimously overruled by the Supreme Court...
...they know there is no panacea for the admissions problem. It is a major feat for a school virtually unknown outside the New England area only ten years ago to become a representative cross section of the country. Yet Radcliffe has come a long way toward accomplishing this. Vigorous administrators are going out and selling a type of education. And they think the market is good...
Mach 2. Man has now flown twice as fast as sound. The feat was performed by Scott Crossfield, 32, pilot for the NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), which has taken over the famed Douglas Skyrocket, first flown by Test Pilot Bill Bridgeman in 1947. Last week the Skyrocket, with Crossfield at the controls, was dropped from a B-29 at 32,000 ft. above Muroc Dry Lake. After following a careful flight plan (climbing so as to reach high altitude with a minimum expenditure of fuel), Crossfield nosed over and flew practically level under full power. The machmeter, which...
Also considered in the committee's choice was Clasby's feat of being the first three-letter winner at the University since World...
...president and sent him off to Europe to salvage what he could of the multimillion trust funds it had been required to set up in banks to guarantee its policies. Though the assets of many of the banks had been confiscated by warring armies, Parkinson retrieved the funds, a feat that brought him the society's vice-presidency in 1925, its presidency 2½ years later. He has since nearly tripled its sales, boosted its assets from less than $1 billion to more than $6 billion...