Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service NEW YORK it just happens 1 that a specialist in bankruptcy law Is the partner copartner co of general trujillo of the dominican republic ln in installing c 01 i specialist shades t he first ol of from precision the E european european into fantasy bantay refugees their island in haven under the ilo plan but this specialist john N rosenberg new york lawyer has since the world war been occupied with the large scale human race bankruptcy of war and famine in europe so he is entering no new field he is president of the dominican resettlement association which is cooperating with general trujillo in what appears to be an absolutely unique experiment la in giving refugees a new start in the western world with houses roads land cattle and farm implements ready for them mr rosenberg has helped liquidate and rebuild all sorts of financial and social wreckage including ivar Kr eagers international match company he is the author of corporate reorganization and the federal courts but he Is also the author of another book called punchinello fantasy or at any rate a play of the imagination has occupied quite as much of his time as law and bankruptcy he has painted hundreds of pictures many of which are hung in good galleries including the fogg museum of harvard he is an etcher lithographer and playwright and broadway has produced his plays for six years he was associated with kenneth macgowan and stark young in backing the provincetown Province town theater his short stories have appeared in many magazines all this with time out to be counsel tor for the irving trust company the foregoing might bugge suggest st the activities of a trap drum mer but he is instead leisurely and meditative an easygoing pipe smoker who always seems to have a lot of time on his hands another of his books is pastel expression he Is busy in communal civic and philanthropic enterprises and in the immediate postwar post war years was head of the american joint distribution commission for europe this took him to russia and he wrote a book about that too gooon on the steppes 11 it if there is to be a general european receivership financial and cultural he might as well take over ile he is a native of allegheny leg heny pa educated at columbia ia university T THIS HIS decade it appears will feature flaming youth among college presidents the recalcitrant and unorthodox and comparatively young may v cj t young educators bhutchins dH score outworn of chicago college methods and stringfel of low barr st johns college are shelling the academic ramparts in their drive against what they consider outworn educational president james B conant of harvard scores an assist in his observation that many college graduates cant read and write fluently and dr mary ellen chase of smith finds undergraduates who dont know their ABCs she says they find it difficult to use the dictionary because they dont alphabetical sequence of letters 1 hutchins and barr would scrap much of the present school curriculum and start rubbing in the great books of the ages in which they find strong support by mortimer J adler with his challenging n new e 7 book how to read a hook book in 1837 1937 mr barr burned his bridges behind him when he and young scott buchanan dean of st johns started their revolution A native of suffolk va mr barr at tended the university of virginia was a rhodes scholar and pursued postgraduate post graduate studies in paris and at the university of ghent belgium he was in the ambulance service in the world war and taught at the universities of virginia and chicago before becoming president of st SL johns 0 IN N THE earlier days of the nazi movement young josef of f essen was up against stiff competition in intemperate langerman language but he guage head in in was gifted in norway tops in that line was invective threat advance drap idly and is pow now rewarded by the post of commissioner of german held areas ar easlin in Norvi norway ay for several years he headed the department of throwing a scare into small ioui countries atiles he hiis as governor of the rhine chini province |