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...year in Mexico City before settling down at Hollywood High School. She didn't get very far. For once upon a summer day, while horseback riding through the Hollywood Hills, she was startled to see a helicopter swoop down from the sky. Out stepped Pressagent Jim Byron ("that's spelled BYRON, as in Lord"), best known for having pasted together a puffy collage known as Jayne Mansfield...
Yvette was only 15, and was easily persuaded to try acting; though she let Byron direct the general shape of her career, she insisted on avoiding "anything that is not myself. Like sticking poodles under both arms while dressed in shorts...
...crumble a social system and avoid civil violence? How can they? A system which is based on violence, from the night-riders to the country court house, may be unwilling to capitulate to non-violent, legalistic means. The whole question may finally be reduced to the words of Byron quoted by W.E.B. DuBois: "Know ye not/Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?" John J. Hartman...
...described and evaluated in the 100 page appendix to the recommendations of the Conway subcommittee, the freshman seminar program and the program of General Education presently work at cross-purposes. Some quotations from the report, written by Byron Stookey and endorsed by the subcommittee, will suggest that one of the aims of the seminar program is to induce students to follow their teachers into an academic career. The seminars "have utilized inquiry in depth (a) as a means of demonstrating the nature and methods of a significant academic area; (b) to provide opportunity for the student to discover what scholarly...
...seminars were established as an experiment in 1959 with an anonymous donation of $2 million. However, the Faculty stipulated at that time that the entire program was to be reviewed and evaluated in three years. Under the direction of Byron R. Stookey, Jr. '54, the program has expanded from an original 17 seminars involving 175 students to this year's total of 41 seminars with an enrollment of more than...