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¶ As a parting pat on the back for retiring President Henry Wriston of Brown University (TIME, April 11), John D. Rockefeller Jr., '97, announced that he was supplementing his June gift of $1,000,000 to the university with $4,000,000 more-he largest single gift Brown...
Rotter's Rotter. The Cenci story has fascinated writers for more than three centuries. Plays, poems, novels and histories have dealt with its dark and bloody theme, and still, as in Frederic Prokosch's new novel, A Tale for Midnight, it has a surefire appeal that does not...
Whether or not Bishops Kemper and Tuttle are worthy of sainthood, many a conscientious Episcopalian doubts the practicality of Bishop Welles's suggestion. Since the Reformation, the Anglican Communion has largely contented itself with the ancient saints of the church calendar. The most famous exception was King Charles I...
Of the women polled, only nine percent said they married their husband for his Harvard education, while 61 percent said they were won by his personality. A total of 95 percent said they were "contented."
A few jaundiced observers wondered whether Bangkok would not do better to spend its energy to clean up its politics rather than its streets. Contented and traditionally independent (more than 700 years), Thailand is the only frankly pro-Western ally along the southeast border of Red China. But its government...