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Harvard is a dead-beat in the East Coast jazz world. Still, subdued, or even anemic, the crimson jazz scene is far from defunct. Today merely marks a downswing in the whimsical curve that has plotted the campus jazz-wise since long before Count Basie wrote his Harvard Blues back when college life in Cambridge meant big bands and hot sounds. A strange student apathy explains why interested elements make so little noise here today, and what passes for apathy stems less from dislike than from lack of jazz education and organization...
...authoritative voices: "Heads up! Keep the step! Look proud! Look proud!" Proud they were, for this group of men was part of the 1,148 members of the U.S. Air Force Academy who were arriving to take up quarters in their smart, expensive ($133 million, so far) new campus' north of Colorado Springs...
...promise of a teaching career from Kansas State President William Jardine, who had been vastly impressed by the scholarship of earnest, bespectacled Milton Eisenhower. Milton accepted Jardine's offer-but wound up with another job. A Republican Party fieldworker came to Kansas State to help Milton organize a campus political club, casually suggested that Milton apply for the consular service. Milton did; soon came a telegram offering him a consular post in Edinburgh. Milton uneasily approached Jardine for an honorable exit route from the faculty register. "Well," said President Jardine with a twinkle, "that's the sort...
Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif, is still too young to have much tradition. What it has, as it prepares to start its second school year this month, is 118 students (7 girls), 17 faculty members plus a half-completed campus, built with funds whose core is a gift of more than $2,000,000 from the widow and family of Harvey Seeley Mudd, a California mining engineer who died three years...
...Phelps Taft, worked his way across the Pacific as deckhand on a freighter, arrived in Melbourne to ask for the hand of a young and beautiful Australian widow. He had met her last year at Yale when, as swimming captain, he had been called upon to show her the campus. An encouraging correspondence developed. But Wendy Marshall, 21-whose husband John Birnie Marshall broke 28 world records swimming "for God, my country, and Yale" and died in an auto crash near Ballarat after fathering her child, John Jr.-turned aside Taft's proposal with a gentle no. Peter said...