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...routine, recite special prayers on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath. Another German sisterhood, the Casteller Ring of Schloss Schwanberg, has an intellectual apostolate: teachers all, the sisters of this order wear street clothes instead of habits, but make promises of chastity and recite community prayers in their own chapel...
Southside Baptist Chapel Brunswick...
...years at Chapel Hill, Sailor McKenna sped through 40 courses in science, literature and anthropology, made straight A's and Phi Beta Kappa. He stayed on after graduation in 1956, married a university librarian ("for my complete set of Wordsworth.'' she murmurs), and toiled at a first novel about the 1925 revolution in China. The book, called The Sand Pebbles, has just become the $10,000 Harper Prize novel of 1962, is a Book-of-the-Month choice for January, and has been bought by Hollywood for a minimum...
Beauty & Freedom. In a sense, McKenna has only done what comes naturally at North Carolina, the first (1795) state university to open its doors. Chapel Hill boasts "something in the air" that inspires purpose. In part, the spur is natural beauty: a town built around a tree-shaded oasis of ivied Georgian buildings on 552 acres. Alumnus Thomas Wolfe ('20) fondly described "Pulpit Hill" in Look Homeward, Angel as "a provincial outpost of great Rome: the wilderness crept up to it like a beast...
Whisky & Writers. Chapel Hill is the sort of town where last year the P.T.A. "came out for whisky"-that is, using state liquor stores to support public schools. It values variety of opinion. It tolerates white students who join Negro sit-in pickets, and it tolerates W. C. George, a retired medical professor who recently earned a $3,000 fee from Alabama with a study "proving"' the biological inferiority of Negroes. It is rightly proud of such alumni as President James K. Polk (1818), and wryly proud of such graduates as the late swindler Gaston B. Means...