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...just an economist-a confessed "illiterate in the arts." But for the past five years Lewis Webster Jones had presided effectively over Vermont's arty, progressive Bennington College, whose 300-odd girls favor sloppy blue jeans and custom-tailored curricula, and excel in the modern dance...
Last week wry, engaging Lewis Jones, 47, was ready to take a job as unlike his old one as it could be. The new job: president of the University of Arkansas. Said he: "I'm devoted to Bennington. My wife and I were charter members of the faculty [1932]. But you can't go on having the same experience. You go flat, you go dead. Small colleges are important for experimenting, but I'd like to get into the main stream-public education...
Died. Hugh Robert Wilson, 61, last U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany, whose recall in 1938 "for report and consultation" ended full diplomatic relations between the two countries three years before Pearl Harbor; after long illness; in Bennington...
...report was a newsman. Llewellyn White, 46, had worked for the Paris Herald, the Literary Digest, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun. Fortnight ago he went to London to join UNESCO's staff. The other, Dr. Robert D. Leigh,. 55, was a progressive-education specialist, founding president of Bennington College, director of FCC's foreign broadcast intelligence service for two wartime years. Their major proposals...
...Pounds & Dozens. In Bennington, Vt., butter-&-eggless Evening Banner Editor Paul Howe headlined a new policy: subscriptions payable in butter & eggs...