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...Japanese-and the air was electric with expectancy. About to make his farewell lecture last week was Basel University's professor Karl Earth, at 74 the Grand Panjandrum of Protestant theologians, whose multivolume work-in-progress, Kirchliche Dogmatik, may well ride out the centuries as a theological landmark, whose post-World War I sermons on Paul's letters to the Romans lit a cannon cracker under Europe's bourgeoisie, whose resounding no to Hitler stiffened intellectual resistance to Naziism, and whose casual shoulder shrug to Communism in recent years has stiffened Western resistance to Barth...
Last week, reaching a milestone on its march to academic excellence, Miami University proudly presented its first two Ph.D.s at commencement exercises held in the huge Miami Beach Convention Hall. Another landmark, to come within four years, will be the awarding of the first A.B. to a Negro...
Billed as the most significant such study since the 1908 Aldrich Commission report that conceived the Federal Reserve System, the report of the Commission on Money and Credit is apt to prove far less of a landmark. Where the Aldrich Commission inspired a major reshaping of U.S. banking controls, the new report recommends only minor adjustments...
...king," the master merchandiser who first made soap-wrapper premiums and box tops into sales gimmicks; of a stroke; in Norwalk, Conn. In 1952, while president of the Manhattan agency bearing his name, Jones sued nine ex-executives who had defected with his major accounts, won a landmark $300,000, which he planned to donate to the University of Pennsylvania to establish a chair in business ethics...
...second landmark in Archbishop Fisher's reign is his good-will trip to the orthodox churches of the Middle East and his precedent-shattering visit to the Pope (TIME, Dec. 12). "I pray for an increase in unity of spirit," he had told the congregation of the Anglican Cathedral at Jerusalem, "in the hope that it will pave the way to an even more formal canonical union, which should be the final goal...