Russell to C. C. N. Y.

Bertrand Russell has bright blue eyes, a big nose and very little chin, looks like Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. The British upper classes believe that he is mad. For 30 years Earl Russell has scandalized them with his unconventional ideas about politics, marriage, education. According to one tale, a local rector, visiting an unorthodox school for children that Bertrand Russell and the second of his three wives ran in Hampshire a few years ago, knocked on the door, which was opened by a nine-year-old girl, stark naked. Cried he: "Good God!" Retorted she, slamming the door: "There is no God."

Because, for all his eccentricities, Bertrand Russell is an expert mathematician, an original philosopher and one of the most lucid modern writers, he has always been welcome in the world's great universities. A U. S. resident since 1938, he has taught at University of Chicago, University of California (this year), next fall will lecture at Harvard. Last week Bertrand Russell's career took a surprising turn: he was appointed a full professor and head of the philosophy department (beginning next February) of big, sprawling, pragmatic College of the City of New York.

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