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Harry Truman offered the Chief Justiceship to Charles Evans Hughes, but Mr. Hughes, in good health but 84, declined with thanks. The search for a Chief Justice went...
...nuclear physicists heard wistfully about their untrammelled Swedish colleagues. Sweden, they mused last week, might be a fine place to work. Some of them thought that refugee scientists from Axis countries, who played so important a part in the Manhattan Project, might move on to Sweden in search of professional freedom. If they did, the little Scandinavian country might become an important factor in the world's atomic affairs...
...hold the preliminary round of his much-talked-about beauty contest with Billy Rose this evening at 8 o'clock in the Hasty Pudding. Apparently the men from the Bow Street rookery had overcome such initial points of resistance as Smith, Wellesley, and Radcliffe in their month-old search for college beauties...
...Zion. Landing in Palestine is a touch-&-go operation. The vigilant British patrol is composed of coast guard stations on 24-hour watch, motor launches and cutters, radar posts. If a ship eludes all these, the authorities may throw a smoke screen around a suspected landing place, then intensively search nearby homes and fields. "Illegals" who are caught are herded into a concentration camp. The Jewish Agency for Palestine, recognized as spokesman for world Jewry, negotiates for their release. Usually the British deduct the "illegals" from the regular quota for immigrants (1,500 a month), before freeing them...
...colleges. Harvard's record consists of importing 198 second-hand government units from a Maine project, setting these dwellings up on three areas adjacent to the University, and running them in conjunction with the government. Realizing the drop-in-bucket inadequacy of this effort, an administrative committee is quietly searching out the alumni and local realtors for vacant apartment buildings and hotels and is further conducting negotiations with the Cambridge City Council for erection of a small-scale project on the site of the Botanical Gardens. But while the talk and search for a needle in the haystack goes...