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...staff, they say. The staff has a few brilliants in such men as Ches Baker, who is reported to have drawn up a reply to Mr. Lindsay's valentine cartoon. Speculation runs wild as to the nature of Mr. L's prewar profession. Jack Anspaugh claims it was a professorship of history but lately it has been hinted that he may have been M.C. or something of a Bob Hope or Jack Benny Calibre radio show...
Professor Pope, whose field is the theory of drawing and painting and the principles of design, was Acting Director of the Museum during 1918-19, rising in the latter year to a full professorship...
...informed observer in emphatic agreement with them is Dr. John Biesanz, 31, who went to green Costa Rica on an exchange professorship from Winona State Teachers College in Minnesota. For 16 months he and his wife, Mavis, gathered facts and polled opinion, crisscross and endways. When Dr. Biesanz went into the Army, Mrs. Biesanz finished his report. Costa Rican Life (Columbia University Press; $3), published this month, is a lighter-reading, 272-page Middletown of Central America's cleanest, happiest country. Some findings...
...first chemist ever to head Standard, plainspeaking, heavy-set Bob Wilson is the son of a college professor (College of Wooster, Ohio). He left an associate professorship at M.I.T. in 1922 to become assistant director of S.O.I.'s research department. In his research days he developed refining processes on which he holds 90 patents, including one on Indiana's widely advertised oil, Iso-Vis. Standard has cashed in on these and other processes Wilson had a hand in finding. Wilson has cashed in too. His salary of $60,000 a year, as president of Pan American Petroleum...
...Eastman Visiting Professorship had been abandoned from 1940 until last April when the American Association of Rhodes Scholars resumed it at the request of Oxford authorities...