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After the longest tenure as Dean of the College in the past century, A. Chester Hanford retires from University Hall this month to take up the teaching of state and local politics where he left...
...twelve-year-old was a wise prophet. In 40-odd years of concert touring, Artur Rubinstein has logged some 1½ million miles, and played for more people than any concert pianist in history. Last week in San Francisco, Rubinstein reached the end of his longest U.S. tour. At 58, he had made go appearances in seven months, and to capacity audiences everywhere. After a few weeks' rest in his Hollywood home, he will set out again on a 34-concert tour of South America. Then will come a tour of Western Europe-except Germany, where Rubinstein has refused...
...Saturday afternoon, the Tiger coach cited as the turning point of the contest Bill Hamlen's tremendous fourth Inning drive to left field with two on and two out, on which the left fielder made a great catch after a long run. "It was one of the longest hits I've seen all year, "said Dolph Samborski last night, "and would certainly have made the score 3 to 1 in our favour if it hadn't been caught...
Totality will last three minutes, 48 seconds-the longest solar blackout since 1940 and until 1955. The National Geographic Society and the U.S. Army Air Forces, which are running the show, believe that this will be the best observed eclipse in history. When the moon's shadow races across Bocayuva, there are many questions to be asked-some new, some...
...Wodehouse, Britain's fastest-writing, longest-lasting funnyman, arrived in Manhattan with his wife (who calls him "Plummy") and their beige Pekingese, for a six-month stay that he hoped to extend. "I do think I'd like to live here for the rest of my life," said he. But he said he had some plays he hoped to get produced. His first night was rather makeshift: hotel space was spare, and large, bald Wodehouse had to sleep on a couch. Next day he discovered he couldn't take his Peke into a restaurant with him. About...