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From his huge oak bench high in Manhattan's gold-topped Federal courthouse, aging Judge Francis Gordon Caffey looked down last week upon a courtroom empty save for two dozen polite attorneys. Their faces were familiar to him. He had been looking at them for 22 months (minus a few recesses) while the Government's anti-trust suit against big Aluminum Co. of America (TIME, July 3) droned on. To the bench came youthful Defense Counsel Edgar Baker. "Your Honor," he petitioned, "I would like to be excused. I have heard only ten minutes ago that I have...
Francis M. Simpson '41 of Oak Park, Illinois and Kirkland House was the unanimous choice of the Varsity basketball lettermen to lead the hoop squad next year when they met yesterday afternoon...
...while he was working on the University observatory grounds at Oak Ridge that Leet first conceived of a new application of the delicate seismograph. Noticing extraordinary vibrations recorded on his instrument, he conducted search of the neighborhood and found that laborers were blasting nearby. At that point he decided to investigate artificial earthquakes caused by the dynamite...
Sculptor Fingesten gets a small monthly check from a patroness, Mrs. Joseph Wasserman, millionaire rugman's widow. For studio he uses a leaky shed in Oak Lane, lent him by Temple University. On rainy days he moves to a cellar. He has taught his Irish landlady how to make bouillabaisse, goulash, spaghetti sauces. "Already I am seven days behind in my rent," says breezy Peter Fingesten, "but she treat me like a mother; when I am sick she cure me - everything. Now she even wants to study painting from...
President of the Student Council and Chairman of the Dunster House Committee, Neal is also a member of P.B.K. The former president of the Debating Council who is editorial chairman of his Class Album tallied 157 votes. His home is in Oak Park, Illinols, and he is a National Scholar...