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...Sixteen-year-old Queen Farida, who has been breaking precedents right & left since her betrothal, last week led the way in breaking another. With Queen Mother Nazli she watched the opening from the royal loge, the first time female members of the royal family have attended the traditional male function...
...Dartmouth, a job he filled until three years ago. With Esthete Paul Rosenfeld, Bard Alfred Kreymborg and Critic Van Wyck Brooks he founded The American Caravan to publish experimental writing. On this board of editors Lewis Mumford was the golden mean. In a sense he has performed the same function among liberal and left-wing thinkers. Without the literary edge and personality of an Edmund Wilson (TIME, March 21) but also without the slightest trace of malice or partisanship, Lewis Mumford has displayed a unique capacity for sensing and understanding the advanced thought, the advanced craftsmanship of his time, reconciling...
Cities were and are laid out in indefinitely expanding grids of rectangular blocks with regard neither to topography nor function, opening the way for "fat pieces of 'honest' municipal jobbery in the grading and filling of streets." Hilly San Francisco was platted as if it were a prairie town, to the perpetual economic loss of its citizens. Arterial highways were made too narrow, residential streets too wide...
...what he admitted was a 'legalistie' statement, Dean Westergaard said, "All present appointments in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research will have expired September 1. If the Corporation makes no new appointments or reappointments by that time, the Bureau will automatically cease to function...
Since it is the function of the tutorial system not only to bring order out of the chaos of specialized courses but also to provide a link between the student and his distressingly impersonal department, it is obvious that the tutor must come to know his tutee and the problems with which he is faced. In the past, some departments have suffered from an inadequate number of men available for tutorial duty, unless some change in policy is made before the beginning of next year that spectre will again be hunting University Hall...