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...feeling of belonging to one reassuring community, to New England or the United States, or to Western civilization, to be sustained and supported by one of these localizations. But they are gone, they are going and they are gone in that sense of being a psychic nest, and the scientist and poet took them away...
...series of Economics professors have completed an evaluation of the late Joseph A. Schumpeter, George F. Baker Professor of Economics. Under the editorship of Seymour E. Harris '20, the book is called "Schumpeter, Social Scientist" and contains pieces by Alvin H. Hansen, Edward S. Mason, Paul A. Samuelson, Edward H. Chamberlain, and David McCord Wright...
...Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in Poland in 1948, a "group of French and Polish intellectuals" held the World Congress of Intellectuals. Many men of good will attended, to hear Russians like Alexander Fadeyev, secretary general of the Union of Soviet Writers, lambast America. Some, like British Scientist Julian Huxley, returned to complain in apparent bewilderment that the congress "preached war, not peace." The congress paid no attention, elected a permanent International Committee of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, and planned national branches to hold other peace meetings...
...British Interplanetary Society is a serious body, dominated not by comicstrip artists and space-opera fictioneers, but by eminent scientists. Last week in London it was host to the Second International Congress on Astronautics, attended by 63 scientist delegates from societies in ten countries. For the delegates, space travel is a practical goal, and not too far in the future. Said Chairman Arthur C. Clarke of the society: "Space flight is likely to be the next major technical achievement of our species...
Died. Dr. Serge Voronoff, 85, Russian-born surgeon and scientist, who became famous in the '20s as "the monkey-gland man," because of his operations for rejuvenation by the transplanting of testicles and thyroid glands; after a brief illness; at Lausanne, Switzerland...