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...final accolade came to Britain's No. 1 economist, John Maynard Keynes, last week. Bank of England shareholders elected him a director, to succeed the late Lord Stamp. Orthodox oldtimer Montagu Norman, the Bank's Governor, thus played a sly old English trick: he swallowed his opposition. Monty, just turned 70, also waived in his own favor the Bank's unwritten rule requiring directors to retire at 70, remained in office...
University of Chicago. The Maroon, taking issue with President Robert Maynard Hutchins, was emphatically interventionist last year, still...
...tosser was liberal Seymour Edwin Harris, Harvard associate professor of economics and longtime pal of Britain's John Maynard Keynes. In a new book called The Economics of American Defense (Norton; $3.50), Professor Harris this week forecast a post-war debt of $75 to $100 billion, a steady increase thereafter "to keep spending at a high level during the post-war (depression) period." By 1980, figured Harris, the debt will be $250 to $300 billion...
...members of the [Chicago] faculty," President Robert Maynard Hutchins told his guests, "breathe the freest air on this continent." At the freest university on the freest continent, delegates addressed themselves to freedom's future...
Visitors to Chicago's semicentennial last week saw its second prodigy in the flesh. As tall and handsome as Harper was dumpy and homely, dimple-chinned Robert Maynard Hutchins was secretary of Yale at 24, dean of its law school at 29, president of Chicago at 30. Like Mr. Harper, Mr. Hutchins (even Ph.D.s are called Mr. at Chicago) is a prodigious money-raiser ($65,000,000 in twelve years) and innovator. Inheriting a university that stood second only to Harvard in scholarship, Hutchins has made Chicago preeminent in another quality-intellectual zizz...