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Underworked Angels. Last week some 80 Americans were under contract to German opera companies, and others were singing in France, Italy and England. Some of them, such as attractive Soprano Irene Callaway, who is making a success in Italy, arrived in Europe on Fulbright scholarships. Others got there by their own power, gladly took smaller salaries than they might earn at home for the satisfaction of treading the boards. "In the States," says Stuttgart's Mezzo Hoffman, "you can sing like an angel, but unless you get a break you can't find any place to sing...
...acting-Dean of Freshmen worked as an assistant Dean while Wilbur J. Bender was Dean of Students, between 1948 and 1952. He then held a Fulbright Scholarship in Scotland for a year before returning to teach History at Williams for a year...
...interest. Milton Eisenhower's one visit worked a remarkable change in South American attitude toward the United States. Argentina, for instance, turned overnight from hostility to equally fervid admiration. But, aside from the one Eisenhower bid, little has been done to increase mutual understanding. In spite of the Fulbright program and others, student, teacher, and labor leader exchange has been negligible. Technical assistance has been almost equally lacking. This is largely because neither the State Department nor the public in general seems to realize the growing importance of Latin America both as a supplier of non-military and strategic materials...
...presidents of Japan's leading university), acknowledge no church authority or structure. As individuals they publish more than 20 monthly magazines, mostly devoted to Bible studies, and hold informal meetings for small groups, usually consisting of prayer, hymn singing, and a lecture on a Biblical theme. Says U.S. Fulbright Scholar John Howes, who has made a special study of Mukyokai: "Uchimura and his followers have more than any other group made Christianity intellectually acceptable to the Japanese...
...fight against it. Its internationalist editorials impressed Roosevelt into recommending them to press conferences as insights into his foreign policy.* Post editorials helped to assure civilian control of atomic energy, and to trigger emergency operations that spared Europe a famine in 1945-46. One gave Arkansas Senator Fulbright the idea for the exchange scholarships that bear his name. The Post's latest crusade has been to build a fire under the clean elections bill now before the Senate with 85 Senators as its joint sponsors. Based on a Graham idea, the bill would outlaw heavy individual campaign contributions, provide...