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Whitman's football temperature had come to fever pitch a fortnight ago after the game with little College of Idaho (enrollment 495). As usual, Whitman lost (31-19). But what really stung Graduate Manager Frederic Santler was the gate receipts-only 158 paid admissions. For the season, Whitman had not only lost six out of eight games; it had also gone $4,000 into the red. Cried Manager Santler: "This marks the beginning of the end for Whitman . . . in intercollegiate athletics...
...years ago," says President Abram Sachar, "we had nothing but a blueprint and a prayer." The blueprint was the work of a group of wealthy U.S. Jews who raised an initial $1,500,000 to set up a university that was to be sponsored by Jews but was to be nonsectarian in faculty and student body. The founders* took over the 100-acre campus of defunct Middlesex University, hired 50-year-old Historian Sachar, former national director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, as president, and opened Brandeis' doors with 107 freshmen...
...high places and evil deeds done in religion's name, he finally decided to devote his time and money to combating humanity's yearning to believe and worship. He spent five years writing a 725-page diatribe against Christianity, called Bible, Church and God. Four years ago he organized a few of his fellow thinkers into the "Secularists of New Jersey" (membership 150). Two years ago his group joined with other societies throughout the country to become the "United Secularists of America," with headquarters in Chicago...
...auction in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries seven years ago, Showman Billy Rose thought that a Frans Hals painting was his for $20,000. But from the auctioneer's pulpitlike rostrum, Parke-Bernet's President Hiram H. Parke sedately cajoled more bids. "What's the matter," called Rose, "you got a stiff arm?" Not until the price had risen another $10,000 did Parke's arm loosen up enough to bring down the hammer and sell the painting to Rose...
Diamond Jim's Gems. Fortnight ago, Hiram Parke popped champagne for a housewarming in the galleries' new $1,500,000 home, a squat, block-long modern building on upper Madison Avenue, 20 blocks away from his old store adjoining 57th Street's famed antique shops. Over the galleries' door, to symbolize art and industry, is a 14-by-10-foot sculpture of Venus and Manhattan, a reclining male. (Because Venus' bosom protrudes more than the permissible 18 inches over the sidewalk, Parke-Bernet pays $25 a year to the city for the privilege...