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...Freed by order of a New York Supreme Court from his marriage with Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, 20, was Clendenin Ryan Jr., 28, grandson of the late great Thomas Fortune Ryan (TIME, May 14, 1934 et ante). The annulment confirmed the referee's recommendation made after secret hearings on the grounds that the Countess had 1) misrepresented her social position, wealth, upbringing; 2) been bought off in two previous engagements; 3) married Socialite Ryan intending shortly to dissolve the marriage, obtain a settlement enabling her to return to a previous love. With obvious reference...
Aubrey Williams' rich planter grandfather voluntarily freed a thousand slaves, involuntarily lost the rest of his property in the Civil War. Trained only for leisure, Aubrey Williams' father turned to manual labor, became a notably unsuccessful blacksmith. Son Aubrey went to work at 6 in a torpedo factory, at 7 became cash-boy in a Birmingham department store...
...square miles of equatorial jungle. 5) If everything does not go well in Liberia, it is just too bad for the U. S. State Department which is held responsible by the world at large. For Liberia was founded over a century ago as a colony for freed Negro slaves from the U. S., has a Government with a President, a Senate, a House of Representatives and all other U. S. fixings. U. S. honor cannot afford to let the British from Sierra Leone or the French from the Ivory Coast step in and clean...
...Freshman year, though now freed of the nightmare of elementary language courses, cannot be counted on, as at present organized, to fill matriculation gaps, let alone furnish an introduction, for the better prepared students, to work of university grade. And concentration, for example in a science, plus four courses in economics, or vice versa, may add a dubious passport indeed to the fellowship of educated men. Although the study made by Mr. Flexner of American universities showed a lamentable majority which thought that everything was as important as everything else, it will hardly be here denied that every subject permitted...
...their presence, need be fed no intellectual pap, spoonful by spoonful. No less profit from the new Decalogue will accrue to the University by casting out courses like Biology A, which offer little sound knowledge of the subject, and still less of the methods of biological work and thought. Freed from this dead weight, the departments will betray their trust if they do not transfer their efforts to more fertile undergraduate instruction...