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...tradition of liberal arts cannot be "extinguished," nor can it remain completely intact. The one would mean discarding a majority of the Faculty, overhauling facilities, and destroying the framework upon which the University must rebuild after the war. The other would force students to dissipate a valuable preparation period, and deny them training they will need in the positions they must fill for a country that is fighting for its life...
Independence or Autonomy? But the best job that Lovett did. to the airman's way of thinking, was to get the Air Corps at least a start toward autonomy within the framework of the War Department. How he did it, Bob Lovett will not say. It was probably done by peaceful argument in the many conferences with War Department top men, from Secretary Stimson and Chief of Staff George Marshall down through the General Staff. However he did it, he did it. Lovett's hand did not show, but the results...
...irate Brazilian literary circles, many remarkable similarities between her own novel, A Sucesora, and the more recent Rebecca. In London Miss du Maurier denies ever having heard either of A Sucesora or its author, prior to the accusation. Her publishers point out that "the sad-second-wife setup" (framework of both novels) is as old as the Book of Ruth. The story of Frenchman's Creek seems an even more universal legend. If one forgets Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Miss du Maurier can vindicate her unoriginality by quoting Pope: What oft was thought...
...those independent-minded countries which, though many are remote from the U.S., and some have clashed with the U.S. in the past, have faith in the Good Neighborliness of the U.S.-such countries as Mexico and Chile. While they may differ with the U.S. over occasional issues, within the framework of Pan-Americanism they are friendly collaborators. Their attitude was expressed last week in a prompt rebuke administered to Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú by Chile's Foreign Minister, Juan Bautista Rossetti, who issued the first call for the Conference. Although handicapped by a headless Government...
...wardens' duties, laboratory work on blackout and combustion control, and Red Cross instruction, graduates of the course are now eligible for assignment to posts as wardens anywhere in the United States. Since they are all either students, Faculty, or staff members, most of them will be used within the framework of ARP organization which is being set up at the University...