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...managers will be: Adams, John F. Ambrose '41; Dunster, Richard B. Wolf '41; Kirkland, Richard S. Lane 41; Leverett, David Wells '41; Lowell, Walter A. Meier and Nathan Belfer '41; Winthrop John Donnel '40; and Apley-Claverly Dudley; Henry D. Wymer...
...tenets of Buchmanism is "Absolute Honesty." Nevertheless, followers of Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman have always turned up their noses at the name "Buchmanite," much prefer to be called the Oxford Group-a designation which suggests that Buchmanism is somehow connected with Oxford University, or at least related to the Oxford Movement of a century ago. Until lately, however, none of the Group's critics was able to do anything about this flourishing misrepresentation. Then Dr. Buchman himself stuck his neck out of his well-tailored shell. In London he applied to the Board of Trade for incorporation...
...springs at least in part from his blindness. Blind from birth he has developed remarkable acuteness and memory in hearing. Today he recognize people by their voices, and can readily identify a voice he has not heard for yean Once at a party he was asked to accompany Violinist Nathan Milstein. Asked if he knew the accompaniment to Lalo Symphonie Espagnole he said no, but the he would try it if somebody ran through once. While the 32-minute-long accompaniment was played, Templeton listened attentively, then played the whole thing from memory, made one mistake...
...Harry Bijur, who pay $5,000 a year for nine rooms. Mrs. Bijur, thirtyish and blonde, is a great-granddaughter of the William Mooney (no relation to California's Tom Mooney) who founded Manhattan's Tammany Hall. Lawyer Bijur's late father was Nathan Bijur, a justice of New York's Supreme Court, and his first cousin is Adman George Bijur. The Harry Bijurs have three servants, a Packard, an active interest in Catholic charities, no leanings toward parlor pinkery. They might well tire of having strikers picket their expensive doorstep...
...Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat" on the U. S. Supreme Court, succeeding his friend Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who in turn had succeeded another friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes...