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...nation's half-dozen best newspapers last week became in name, as it has long been in fact, a woman's responsibility. Mrs. Ogden Reid, inheriting her late husband's estate (TIME, Jan. 13), became president of the New York Herald Tribune and possessor of 170 of the paper's 200 shares. In as editor went her 33-year-old son Whitelaw ("Whitie") Reid, Yaleman, Navyman and fifth in a line of editors that started with Horace Greeley...
...always been primarily for those who enjoy reading verso 'for the fun of it," and is designed to provide a comfortable, quiet retreat where interested students may while away an hour or so browsing through their favorite versifiers or discovering a few new ones--from William Blake to Ogden Nash. Unlike the Farnsworth Room, which is better known--and much closer to ground-level-- it is also a circulating library, and books may be taken out, under the usual rules...
...Died. Ogden Mills Reid, 64, editor-publisher of the Republican New York Herald Tribune, son of Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A year after his father's death in 1912, he became editor of the Tribune, eleven years later purchased the New York Herald (founded 1835) and its Paris edition. With his wife as partner, he directed a paper that gave Manhattan its best local news, that offered foreign coverage surpassed only by the rival New York Times...
...passion for mountain climbing. Two things, however, failed to fit into this picture: his acute intelligence, which made him suspect that often the greatest philosophers don't make sense; and his conscience, which wouldn't rest till he found out why they failed to make sense. C. K. Ogden was then at Cambridge, and interested in the treacheries of the language, and together he and Professor Richards probed the question. Their findings were set forth in 1923 in "The Meaning of Meaning"; the now famous book on semantics. Ogden and Richards had found that many of even the most formidable...
...starting lineup for the Crimson was Harshman, g.; Purinton, r.f.; Merck, l.f.; Mavor, r.h.; Ogden, c.h.; Blanco, l.h.; Smith, o.r.; Morse, i.r.; Potter, c.f.; Lazarus, i.l.; Corrigan, o.l. Substitutes were: Cate, Seamans, Chun, Louris, Carswell, Dawson, Ragle, Ensign, Malcolm, and Forster...