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...were unaware of Ramus' financial problems when they bought the novel, but they are, needless to say, standing behind the book and its suddenly marketable author. "We worried that if he were in jail he wouldn't be able to do a book tour," says HarperCollins vice president Lawrence Ashmead. Never fear: the trial is scheduled for next month, and Ramus began his seven-city promotional blitz last week...
...issuance of postage stamps commemorating foreigners. In other actions, the Founding Mothers endorsed the Monroe Doctrine, engaged in a minor skirmish when a lone maverick opposed censure of the Peace Corps. Summarily shutting off the debate ("You've had your two minutes"), D.A.R. President General, Mrs. Ashmead White, gaveled through a resolution to keep the U.S.'s "inexperienced youth" at home...
Loudest caterwauling came from New York, where Tom Dewey and New York County Chairman Kenneth Simpson came within an ace of saying what they thought about one another. A longstanding, bitter, personal enmity came out into the open. Said Deweyman Warren B. Ashmead, Queens County committeeman trying to oust Mr. Simpson as national committeeman: "There had to be a showdown sooner or later." Said Mr. Simpson: "I am now of course relieved from any further favorite-son support of Mr. Dewey...
University fellowships to: Josef Alexander '38, Theodore L. Agnew Jr., University of Illinois. Henry D. Aiken 1G, John Ashmead Jr. '38 James R. Balsley Jr., California Institute of Technology. Roger S. Bender 2G, Francis G. Blake Jr. '38 William H. Bond 1G, Halvor N. Christensen 1G, Arthur LeR. Cohen 1G, I Bernard Cohen 1G, Francis M. Cresson Jr., University of Pennsylvania Museum. Francis S. Doody, Tufts College. Avran Douglis, University of Chicago. Charles W. Dunn, McMaster University, Ontario. Gwynne B. Evans 1G, Mackarness H. Goode, Culver Military Academy...
Mary Saltonstall scholarships, established in 1733, for "Juniors and Seniors in Harvard College (always dissenters)," awarded to John Ashmead, Jr. '38, of Windsor, Connecticut; and Clare L. Milton '39 of St Joseph, Michigan...