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...businessman has learned. Dozens of colleges own commercial real estate, apartment buildings and factories, some own ranches and farms. New York University gets the profits of the C. F. Mueller Co. (macaroni), while the University of Michigan operates the airport at Willow Run. Last week, the University of Louisville found itself hooked up with a race track...
...freshman at Wellesley College, brown-eyed Margaret Clapp found herself one day on both academic and social probation. She was flubbing physics and had come in too late one night from a date ("The car really did break down"). It was not the best of beginnings, but Margaret Clapp did not let it stop...
...mihi animas [give me souls]," was the prayer of bearded, stern-faced St. Francis Xavier, greatest missionary of the Roman Catholic Church since Apostolic times. One of the first Jesuits, who helped St. Ignatius Loyola found the order, Francis Xavier journeyed to India .and then to the Far East in his historic quest for converts. On Aug. 15, 1549, the astonished farmers and fishermen of Japan first saw his black-clad figure. For more than two years thereafter, Francis Xavier moved tirelessly among the Japanese, of whom he wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds...
Arthritis is one of man's and animals' oldest identifiable diseases; traces of it have been found in the bones of Neanderthal man and of dinosaurs. But doctors have no sure idea of its cause or cure. Ten years ago, when the International Congress on Rheumatic Diseases last met, the yanking of teeth and tonsils was a leading treatment recommended by the rheumatics experts. Last week, when the Congress gathered in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the 794 physicians from the U.S. and 25 foreign countries were excited about emotions and hormones...
...page (If You Ask Me) had helped push the Journal to its No. 1 spot in the U.S. women's magazine field (TIME, Oct. 4). He could hardly believe his ears when Mrs. Roosevelt told him that the Journal's co-editors, Bruce and Beatrice Gould, had found fault with her latest volume of memoirs and asked her to let them help rewrite it. Editor Wiese knew a golden opportunity when he saw one; he not only snatched Mrs. Roosevelt's memoirs away from the Goulds, but took her monthly answer page to boot. With a jubilant...