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...were too eminent to be tried in Moscow, although in Moscow drastic Judge Vassily Ulrich recently ordered 36 of the 117 executions decreed to avenge Dictator Stalin's assassinated "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week Judge Ulrich arrived in Leningrad in the midst of exceedingly select Communist company-including such prisoners as Comrade Lev Kamenev (brother-in-law of Great Exile Trotsky) and Comrade Grigory Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," and personal bodyguard of Lenin during the late Dictator's years of exile...
Newsworthy were three other proposals in President Conant's report: ¶Many a scholar retreats into his own specialty, loses sight of outside progress. President Conant would appoint a select corps of "professors without portfolio'' to bridge the artificial gaps which over-specialization leaves between fields of study. "We need a certain number of university professors with roving commissions whose teaching and creative work shall not be hampered by departmental considerations...
...Winthrop House Committee elections held yesterday to select representatives from the Sophomore and Junior classes, Thomas H. Bilodeau '37 and Peter Ward '36 were chosen for the committee...
Under the new plan students who are not admitted to the department they designate as first choice will be placed under the tutelage of a new Committee of Advisors who will select a field for them based on their own records...
Alec (the "I" of the story) is a rich man's son, nearing 40 but still with no visible means of support other than periodic parental checks. A member of The Brook, most select of Manhattan clubs (where there are "always amusing fellows . . . ready for anything"), Alec divides his time between his country estate and the pleasures of town. He is married to a beautiful wife, but they are just pals. Alec not only has good looks (he was called "Adonis" at Yale but was somehow popular), but also a fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides...