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...surprise in Publisher Curtis' choice of his successor, Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Satevepost. Son-in-Law Martin has plenty to do running the newspapers. Many years ago Mr. Curtis turned the management of all three magazines over to Editor Lorimer. Neither man was present in the oak-paneled board room overlooking Independence Square last week when the resignation and election were effected. The directors issued a statement that "Mr. Curtis . . . wishes to be relieved of the cares and details of active management and believes that the younger generation should assume them...
...Oak Ridge Trip
...weather permits, the afternoon session will be held at the new Oak Ridge station of the Harvard Observatory at Harvard. This will be the first meeting of any importance to take place at the new Observatory, which was dedicated early last September. Following the election of officers and council members, opportunity will be given for the presentation and discussion of papers. Tea will be served at the invitation of Dr. and Mrs. Shapley at 4.30 o'clock. The meeting will adjourn at 5.30 o'clock for the return to Cambridge...
...pews, of pine, are painted white and the windows are of plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is in the choir, which perpetuates the name of Appleton Chapel, that the regular morning services will ordinarily be held...
...allergy stand out as useful - he protein theory and the reagin theory. Two points are certain about hayfever and the other allergies: 1) certain substances are mildly poisonous to certain people; 2) people react to their personal poisons in specific ways. The irritants may be plant pollens (ragweed, timothy, oak), foods (wheat, milk, eggs, fish), ani maldanders, feathers, dusts. The victim may show his symptoms in his nose and eyes (this is hayfever per se), his skin (hives), brain (migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory presumes that proteins...