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...might be the new Secretary for the Colonies, the newspapers of Lord Beaverbrook were vociferous that it should not be First Commissioner of Works William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 51, arch-Conservative son & heir of the third Baron Harlech and specialist in the British colonies, geography and Florentine art. Last week Stanley Baldwin, who immunizes his pious convictions against criticism by not looking at a news paper over the long British weekend, named Mr. Ormsby-Gore Secretary of State for the Colonies...
...order of St. Michael and St. George, Sir Aldo Castellani, whose wife is English and whose only daughter two years ago married British High Commissioner for Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson. Italy's No. 1 enemy in Ethiopia was disease and Sir Aldo is a world-famed specialist in tropical diseases. Most of his experience he acquired as a medical officer of the British Colonial Office in Uganda and Ceylon. He was accustomed to spend half the year in London, where he was director of mycology in the School of Tropical Medicine, three months in the southern U. S. where...
...Joseph Colt Bloodgood. famed cancer pathologist, megaphoned to every human being with a mole upon his skin: "Beware of death-dealing black cancer! Watch that mole and, if it starts to grow, have it cut out before it is too late." Dr. Bloodgood believed with many another wise cancer specialist that it is worth scaring the wits out of 999 people in order to save the thousandth man from death by cancer...
...half as many as Germany; Denmark gets two as does Japan; the United States leads with fourteen followed by England with twelve. All fields of human knowledge are covered, at least indirectly. Science is heavily emphasized, but art, music, literature, law, history, finance, commerce, each presents at least one specialist. The famous universities of the Old World will send faculty members to Harvard, and among those of the United States are California, Chicago, Columbia, Michigan, Princeton and Yale...
...until their last year do Union men get around to specializing in a particular denomination. Then they spend an hour a week learning about it from a specialist in whatever "church polity" interests them. By examination time in the spring a Union Methodist should be well grounded in all that any Methodist should know; an Episcopalian should be able to answer the hard questions he will be asked before ordination to the diaconate; a Presbyterian can tell the difference between the Westminster and Auburn Confessions. The average member of Union's graduating class will be temporarily content with...