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Born. To Diana Douglas-Home Wolfe-Murray, 23, youngest daughter of Britain's Prime Minister; and James Archibald Wolfe-Murray, 27, executive of Glasgow's James Buchanan Ltd., makers of Black & White Scotch: their first child, a daughter (and first grandchild for 60-year-old Sir Alec); in London...
...Midst laurels stood: Archibald MacLeish, 71, named Amherst's poet in residence to succeed the late Robert Frost; Playwright-Producer Sir Tyrone Guthrie, 63, installed in the honorary post of chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, succeeding Britain's late World War II strategist, Lord Alanbrooke; Poet and Critic Allen Tate, 64, awarded the $5,000 Chancie and William Booth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets by a board of such peers as W. H. Auden and Randall Jarrell; Architect Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 76, promoted to grand officier, next to highest...
...Died. Archibald Henderson, 86, University of North Carolina mathematician, official biographer of George Bernard Shaw, who was a crony of Mark Twain's and studied relativity with Einstein before asking in 1904 to become Shaw's biographer, so impressed The Beard with his erudition (G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum") that he produced not one but three full-scale lives of the Methuselan playwright; of a heart ailment; in Chapel Hill...
...five, four--Stanley Surrey, Archibald, Cox, Abram Chayes and John McNaughton--were professors at the Law School before going to the Capital. David Beil was Secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration and Lecturer in Economics. Presently scattered around Washington in four different Departments, the Harvard contingent classifies their experience in Washington as "exhilarating," "frustrating," "fascinating," and as a "good kind of interlude." But while they welcomed the chance to "get in touch with reality," they all look with obvious relish to the day they will return to academic life...
...School fugitive who has been able to deal with strictly legal problems is Archibald Cox, Solicitor-General. He is responsible for arguing all cases appearing before the Supreme Court in which the federal government is involved. Yet despite the fact that Cox has kept up with the law, he says that Cambridge and Washington don't even lend themselves to comparison. Although the job of Solicitor-General is a busy one, so, says Cox, is that of a Law School professor. "But my wife says it's busier here...