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...when the Kentucky legislature passed a law forbidding Negroes and whites to attend the same schools, little nonsectarian Berea College had to dismiss its handful of Negro students. Last month, after 46 years, the legislature changed its mind. With the law amended, 95-year-old Berea (enrollment: 1,148), whose president is Francis S. Hutchins, younger brother of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins (see above), became the first Kentucky college to announce that it would welcome Negroes back...
Later, kindly father Hutchins became president of Kentucky's Berea College, but by that time young Robert had gone on to Yale. In 1917 he had joined the Army ("The manual of arms is not a great book"), won the Italian Croce di Guerra for being "poisoned by a can of sardines," then enrolled in the Yale Law School ("No case book is a great book"). At 24 he was secretary of Yale University, at 26 a lecturer at Yale Law School, at 28 a full professor and dean...
Died. William P. Odom, 30, globe-girdling veteran flyer; in an airplane crash (his F51 Mustang went out of control at Cleveland's National Air Races); in Berea, Ohio. Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...
...Ross Berea...
...town of Berea, Ohio, an elderly lady walked up to a student on the street last week and asked: "Are you the one?" Harrison ("Bones") Dillard, 24, son of a day laborer, grinned. "Guess I am," he replied. The old lady grabbed his hand and said that she was certainly glad to know...