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...Palmetto Senior High in Miami. "I went oh-for-three." He had been turned down by Harvard, Yale and Trinity. Unassuming and outgoing, Jeff had been featured in Miami newspapers as an outstanding student leader. He had produced a color movie on Palmetto High that won a national award from the Secondary School Teachers Association. His grades had slipped below straight A's only during one quarter, and then because of his extracurricular activities...
...Northwestern University, received the prize for biography. This is the second consecutive year that the University Press has been the publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography. Jones, teaching this spring at Stanford University, said last night that he was surprised and "quite thrilled" by the announcement of the award...
George Gaylord Simpson, Alexander Agassis Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday. He is the first man to have received the award twice...
Wanting short stories, the Advocate has found an excellent substitute in scenes from two plays. "Treason at West Point" by James Culpepper, the Phyllis Anderson Award Play of 1965, bears a rather disconcerting resemblance to Shaw's "Devils Disciple," and perhaps for that reason it makes entertaining reading. The two scenes printed in the Advocate bristle a bit too thickly with jocular repartee, and they race like a mounted Paul Revere--outdistancing, at times, his characters' motives for acting as they do. Culpepper's play is all animation and exclamation unwilling to sit still long enough to attend to subtle...
...dramatic technique "Treason at West Point" shrivels somewhat when set beside the play that took second prize in the Anderson Award competition, "The Reprisal." Mark Bramhall, an Osbornian iconoclast, puts a reckless, sensuous man into the collar of a divinity student, then sticks both man and collar in one corner of a writhing triangle. The dialogue blazes with violent, staccato speeches as David, the protagonist, banters and bickers with his mistress and the good girl in the piece. Occasionally the sarcasm and the yelling get childishly out of hand, but as a whole the drama is exciting, exhausting, and superb...