Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F F PARTON N NEW EW YORK Miss Miss Louise A. A Boyd wandering far from sunny sunny sunny sun sun- ny San Rafael In California pushes farther up the East Greenland coast const than any Amen Ameri- Venturesome can ever went be be- Louise Boyd fore tore She was a Modest Soul comel comely woman of 30 skilled in the rubric of serving tea and all the niceties of Victorian etiquette before before ce- ce be be- fore she shoved into the ice pack and began shooting pot-shooting polar bears nine nine in m one day She might have felt like the late William James who v free from a long stretch at a n Wisconsin chautauqua asked passersby passersby passersby pass- pass ersby i if they could direct him to anice anice a anice nice Armenian massacre For the last 12 years she has been equipping stout little Norwegian sealers for her expeditions She has trained herself herscU in scientific observations and her findings are published under scientific auspices She holds decorations from two foreign foreign foreign for for- I eign governments and the American Geographical society has published two of her books She Surveyed a stretch of the Greenland coast previously previously pre pre- uncharted and for tor this the Danish government named the the area Miss Boyd Land She She has ventured farther north than any other white woman She dislikes publicity and has bas little of the hi histrionic sense common to explorers So far as as' as the reporters are are concern concerned cd she might just as well ell make an expedition to Flatbush At great labor and expense it if has been ascertained ed ho however ever that she takes a ri nice q wardrobe be bc north with her and that she always powders her nose before going on deck She probably was trapped into th these sc indiscreet c t admissions admissions admissions ad ad- missions as she has made it clear that all this is nobody's business Weaving through ice packs on an Atlantic voyage gave her her big bie I idea One of her ebi chief t. t interests on her northern voyages is pl rap She is the daughter of John Bo Boys Boya wealthy CalifOrnian The old manse at San Rafael which this writer has seen on occasion is a citadel of decorum from which It would seem none would ever w wander wander wan wan- n- n der so far and so dangerously S Pr THOSE HOSE who liked Thomas Manns Mann's The Coming of Democracy will find In Dr Cyrus Adler who celebrated his birthday the other other oth- oth er day a liv- liv I Dr Ur C. C Adler lag fog statement Embodiment of of Herr Manns Mann's Manns Mann's Theme theme A scholar schol- schol ar and humanist human human- he has given his life to an exemplification ex exemplification ex- ex x- x of democracy as an ethical and cultural aspiration and not a political formula which formula which is Thomas Manns Mann's Impassioned thesis This writer thought of that when he read th the book and spotted up Doctor Doctor Doc Doe tor Adlers Adler's birthday in in inthe the future book for attention here He lie Is the thc only president of ot l two colleges college of ot Philadelphia and the Jew Jewish h Theological Seminary of ot New York A fellow of Johns Hopkins Hopkins Hop nop- kins university where he obtained obtained ob ob- oh- oh tamed his doctorate he taught at the University of Baltim Baltimore re lie He has been a stanch defender of r science and the tho l humanities uma against bigotry and insularity through the more than half haIl century of his t teaching writing writing- and speaking At his retreat at Woods Hole Mass he is still creative alert and vigorous He is saluted ed here as the proprietor of at one o of of our most Important important im Im- Im birthdays birthday S SD I T R. R. R GEORGE D. D BIRKHOFF DR D professor of mathematics matics ma at Harvard seems to be bd bethe the first to note the tile competition in hi the ic world from r f n t w rt Prof Birkhoff t the h e influx of Warns of Influx Of Intellectuals al nl ref refugees u gee s from Europe As the doctor sees it mathematicians mathematicians mathematicians wont won't be worth a dime a dozen i if these highly gifted gilted men keep on coming However his observations indicate no narrow insularity on his part He is all nil for the enrichment of our intellectual ual life lie but notes that somebody may have to ride on the running board with all this over over- crowding When Einstein began batting his hot relativity grounders this way vay Doctor Birkhoff was one of ot the few men In America who could field them Ho lie L. L is a prolific pro pro- hue writer In the overlapping zone of or mathematics and philosophy phil phil- one of the most heavily garlanded men in the scholastic world a distinguished Catholic layman holding high papal honors hon bon ors for scholarship lie He 13 ig 3 a native of or I Michigan an educated at atthe atthe atthe the University of or Chicago and aud 0 Consolidated News Features I |