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Editor's Notes
Looking back to a school at war - Four Septembers ago, browsing in O'Gara & Wilson's, I found a well-used children's alphabet book. Its cover was missing but at the bottom of the first page were the publisher's name (Samuel Lowe Company) and copyright date (1943). I knew I was going to buy it. How could I not buy an abecedary that matched brightly colored letters with now arcane professions-…G for Glass blower, H for Hackman, I for Iceman, J for Junkman…?
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From the President
"We were saying yesterday...."- On September 29 the University celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Enrico Fermi (see "Beyond the Bomb"). It was a day for both philatelists and physicists, since the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp, and I learned things about both fields that I had not known.
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Chicagophile
Coming soon - by Jessica Abel, AB'91 [ MORE ]

Letters
Use and abuse
Caption correction
Another caption correction
How OMP became OII
Colorful architectural criticism
Advertising-fueled consumption
Poetry in the stacks
Expected chaos
Alumni board nominees sought
Authors' queries
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