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...does nearly all the talking. Halifax, chin in hand, listens with an air of attentive patience, occasionally lifts his eyes in amazement at Economist Keynes's memory for facts & figures. Their associate, Sir Henry Self, who looks like an Irish patriot's caricature of a hard-eyed, thin-lipped Sassenach statesman, rarely makes a remark...
...opposite pole was Notre Dame, whose loud moans indicated that Irish luck had run thin. The year's top job-switchers, Coaches Ed McKeever (Notre Dame to Cornell) and Carl Snavely (Cornell to North Carolina) also sang a sad song-"Not this year"-but both managed to squeeze through their openers...
High in the ranks of U.S. educators is a man who has not lived in the U.S. for 40 years. Since 1919, thin, balding John Leighton Stuart, 69, has been President of China's No. 1 Christian university, American-endowed Yenching. The past three and a half of these years have been spent in Jap captivity. In Chungking last week Dr. Stuart, perhaps the most respected American in China, told his story...
...this feat, Lockheed's Bob Gross has to share the credit with Jack Frye and Howard Hughes, the thin-faced, lanky flyer, tool maker, brewer, financier and movie maker, who owns the controlling interest in TWA. Six years ago, Hughes and Frye decided that TWA should expand its routes around the world. For this, they needed a new plane. So they drew up specifications for the Constellation, gave Lockheed the job of designing and building...
...bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had radioactive effects so deadly and persistent that "everything still living was waiting to die" long after their explosions. U.S. authorities minimize these reports. The atomic bombs, they claimed, were deliberately exploded high in the air; consequently their gamma rays would be spread out thin and their radioactive byproducts dissipated in the atmosphere...