Local Cadets Not Involved In Scandal
Rep. Burr P Harrison said Army officials assured him none of his appointees to the United States Military Academy are involved in the cheating scandal. Appointees at West Point include George W. Miller Hugh J Hall Jr William H Clarke and Morris Thompson Warner Jr. Harrison noted J L Sites also was not involved and criticized secrecy surrounding the case.
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Burr P. Harrison
Army
United States Military Academy
Harrison
West Point
George W. Miller
Winchester
Hugh J Hall, Jr
William H. Clarke
Harrisonburg
Morris Thompson Warner, Jr
Staunton
J. L. Sites
Gladstone
Academy
Virginia
Dunn Discusses Social Security at Shepherd College
Wilmer Dunn, administrator for Social Security, spoke to the retail merchandising class at Shepherd College. He outlined the act’s history and purpose, reviewed recent trends in its administration, showed a film, and answered student questions with Miss Etta O Williams supervising the class.
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Wilmer Dunn
Social Security
Winchester
Shepherd College
Etta O. Williams
Dunn
Act
Richmond Deserted to Modern Riches The Capital’s Heritage
Holiday Magazine Profiling Virginia’s Capital, Clifford Cowder traces Richmond’s evolution from an Indian era site to a modern city. The piece notes enduring aristocratic conservatism rooted in families, memorials of the Confederacy, and the city’s roles in American history, commerce, and culture with seventeen photographs.
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Richmond
Virginia
Holiday Magazine
Clifford Cowder
Piedmond
Fat or Skinny Everybody Keeps Warm
Portland report discusses how body shape does not affect warmth with experiments on a 5 ft 11 in dummy weighing 165 pounds. Professors Mutchingon and Baker tested heat absorption and calculated implications for various body shapes. They also include a survey question about human races.
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Portland
American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers
F. W. Mutchingon
University of California
Mer Baker
University of Kentucky
Summer Of Important Firsts For Catholic Father Barrett
Father John Barrett of Chicago leads a Bihar India mission marked by firsts. Nepal invites Jesuits to Kathmandu to open a high school as Patna Mission launches India's first vernacular Catholic weekly, Santo Svan, with 20 000 subscribers planned. The Patna Mission runs four boys schools with Cambridge exams and 4800 students at St. Xavier's Patna. Jesuits from multiple nations support education while facing rural hostility and Communist pressure.
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Selig
Harrison
Patna
India
John Barrett
Chicago
Bihar
Kingdom of
Nepal
Kathmandu
Patna Mission
Khatmandu
Marshall Moran
St. Xavier's School
Barrett
San
United States
Spain
Belgium
France
Italy
Yugoslavia
Malta
Canada
Father Barrett
Delhi
Farhe Barrett
Gandhi
New Republic
Ind
Legal Safecracker Solves 8 Year Dilemma
In Murphysboro Illinois a traveling safe expert opened a Masonic safe that members had not accessed since 1943 after their late secretary died. Tobe Monday used only the dial and listening to inner workings to retrieve records in ten minutes in front of startled Masons.
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Murphysboro
Tll
Tobe
Enlisted at 15 Juan Torres Reenlists Post Korea Age Issue
A man who was discharged for age after Korea tries to rejoin. He is told to obtain a Puerto Rico birth certificate. The exchange hints at bureaucratic hurdles in military enlistment.
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New York
Korea
Juan Torres
Puerto Rico
Husband hooks wife in fishing mishap at lake
In Crab Orchard Lake Tennessee Leroy Walker taught his wife to fish. She landed a 160 pound catch in six casts. On the seventh cast she hooked Walker in the neck, he pulled the hook free by clipping the barb after exposing it.
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Crab Orchard Lake, Tll
P—Leroy Walker
Murphysboro, TM
Leroy
Birthday of Detlev W. Bronk Johns Hopkins president
AP News notes Detlev Wulf Bronk born August 13 1897 in New York City is identified as the sixth president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Bronk is described as a renowned physiologist and bio physicist who developed a method to measure nerve cell changes during brain stimuli and served on the UNESCO U.S. commission. Also included is a quiz about when the United States abolished the standard gold dollar with the answer that the last gold dollars were minted in 1922 and regular gold dollar coins ended under an 1890 act.
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Detlev Wulf Bronk
New York City
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Bronk
U.S
United Nations Educational Scientific An Cultural Organization
Unesco
United States
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