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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Christmas issues. They have included Norway's heroic Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, who at the time (1944) was a defiant and solitary prisoner of the Nazis; Marian Anderson, around whose life and career TIME'S editors told the story of the Negro spiritual; and the late Lieut. General Lesley McNair, who as chief of Army Ground Forces in 1942 was responsible for providing some measure of Christmas cheer to 3,000,000 G.I.s...
First, Brahman priests bathed the dead man's body in holy Ganges water, placed a green tulsi leaf between his lips and marked his forehead with yellow sandalwood paste and red kumkum powder. Then, in the late afternoon, a gun carriage drawn by Indian soldiers, sailors and airmen carried the body through Bombay's streets while vast crowds mourned and planes overhead showered the procession with flowers. Finally, at the cemetery, the dead man's son poured incense and ghee (semifluid butter) over the body and lit the pyre. Watching the rising flames, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed...
...Ceilings. By late 1949, MacConnell had his new department, plus a headquarters "laboratory" of construction and equipment specimens, e.g.: 18 different types of ceiling, five types of flooring, and just about every shape and size of chair, table and desk a school might need. Meanwhile, MacConnell and his graduate students were busy answering calls for help...
...Ford Foundation, set up from the estates of the late Henry Ford, Sr, and Edsel Ford, controls $288,000,000 which it intends to spend for study and endeavor in five basic fields--peace, education, strengthening of democracy, economics, and human relations...
Before Eisenhowre took office at Columbia, the university was run by Acting President Frank D. Fackenthal, who assumed administrative duties after the retirement of the late Nicholas Murray Butler in 1944. Fackenthal is still active in the Columbia administration...