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...Macon to Little Rock to Chicago to Albany to Los Angeles to St. Louis to Washington to Boston to St. Louis to Detroit to Washington to Brooklyn again. They all knew him as a Man Of Purpose, though the purpose is usually weird; as the game's biggest present-day outsize ego, though he delivers the goods every so often with the crushing simplicity of an anti-tank gun; and as a man dying to stand the rest of the National League on its head-which is what Brooklyn needs...
Defending liberal education, and especially the study of the ancients in these days of the rush to the scientists, Professor Rand pointed to the ideas of the classical thinkers as models for present-day thought. "What could be better for the man in Government than the reading of Plato and Aristotle in the original tongue...
...seminar will present leaders in Medicine, Psychology and Sociology, many of whom are associates of Harvard graduate schools. Heading the list of this week's lecturers is Professor Henry W. Holmes '03, Harvard Graduate School of Education, whose lecture, scheduled for this afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, is entitled "Motivating Youth for Present-day Living...
Motivating Youth for Present-Day Living--Seminar on Youth Standards in Wartime. Dean Henry W. Holmes, Emerson 211, 2:30 o'clock...
...once called the egg the "functionally perfect shape, the symbol of progress." Abandoning the egg for some-thing closer to a motorboat, French-born Designer Loewy would fashion his car of light, unpainted alloys, plastics, nonreflecting glass. With a liquid-cooled engine in the rear, he would leave the present-day hood as a concession to popular taste, a storage space for tires, battery, air-conditioner. The undercarriage would be faired-in (streamlined). Doors and windows would operate by push button. It is possible that present auto manufacturers would not have the post-war car all to themselves. Autos...