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...novelty for contestants in the National Spelling Bee to be in distress, but in the 23rd annual Scripps-Howard contest in Washington, D.C. last week even the judges had a bad time...
...Washington was sent down in tears for spelling supersede with a "c." Four rounds later, red-faced judges called her back after finding that such a respectable authority as Webster's unabridged dictionary accepted Audrey's spelling as a correct variant. Nobody could remember when National Spelling Bee judges had ever had to reverse themselves in such fashion. And they were not through backtracking. Before the contest was over they had done it three times more, belatedly accepting knarled (for gnarled), coruscate with a double "r" and rarefy with an "i," after first waving the spellers...
...Cokes, the judges hastily collected 37 more heavy-caliber surprises. Diana and Colquitt went through them all (including meticulosity, syzygy, prorogue, frondesce, cincture, heliotaxis, ectogenous, meerschaum) without a slip. With everybody feeling that honor had been more than satisfied, the judges thereupon declared a draw, the first in the Bee's history. To Winners Diana and Colquitt went twin sets of prizes: $500 checks, trips to New York, gold National Bee emblems set with rubies...
Last week the John Hay Whitney Foundation announced the award of their first 42 fellowships (averaging $2,024 each). Among the winners: Milton Bee Wise, 20, a Kentucky mountaineer who will study animal husbandry at North Carolina State, take his knowledge back to fellow farmers at home; Delfino Varela, 23, a Spanish-American who wants to study community rehabilitation at U.C.L.A. and plans to use his training in rural New Mexico; Van Sizar Allen, 24, a Mississippi Negro who will start graduate biology studies at Woods Hole, Mass, this summer; Peter Tali Coleman, 30, a Samoan who plans to take...
...reporter learns in the average city room is not to whistle, hum or sing. It's bad luck, and furthermore, it's disconcerting. But for more than two years, every 15 minutes from dawn till dark, the staid city room of the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (circ. 114,854) has echoed to the strains of such treacly tunes as Dear Hearts & Gentle People and Because You Love Me. Miss Eleanor McClatchy, fiftyish, publisher of the Bee, wants it that way. She thinks that the music (piped in by Muzak) relaxes the Bee's workers and coaxes better copy...