Alumni Notes

John William Rogers '16 has recently assumed the editorship of the Chicago Sun BookWeek.

I Had to Join—l Was Never a Good Nazi, by Shepard Stone '29 is the title of an article which appears in the December 15th issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Rudi Blesh '21 is the author of a book Shining Trumpets; A History of Jazz. This book published by Knopf will be reviewed in a later issue of the MAGAZINE.

A book of 106 pages Capital Gains Taxation, a panel discussion published by the Tax Institute of New York City, contains a discussion by Beardsley Ruml '15, "Capital Gains and the Corporation."

A Study of Classifications and Salaries forEngineering Jobs in Los Angeles County Service and Prevailing Salaries as of April 1945 inthe Los Angeles County Area. Report to theBoard of Supervisors Los Angeles County, by A. P. Richmond Jr. '14, has been published in mimeographed form as a pamphlet, of 67 pages, plus many charts.

Recent publications of Dr. Robert M. Stecher '19 are Heberden's Nodes, Their Relation to Other Degenerative Joint Diseases, reprinted from the July number of the Archives of Physical Medicine, and Heberden'sNodes, V. The Association of Hypertensionand Obesity to Degenerative Joint Disease ofthe Fingers, reprinted from the June issue of The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine.