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Died. Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, 69, creator of the comic strip Mutt and Jeff; of cancer; in Manhattan. Starting in 1907 with a sports-page cartoon about a chinless horse-race tipster named Augustus Mutt, Fisher added runty, harebrained Jeff four months later, made a merry fortune (at his peak in the '20s he earned $300,000 a year) whirling them around on a ceaseless merry-go-round of fights, skulduggeries and amiable confusion...
...TheU.S. is well on the way to a nervous breakdown, declared the Rev. Edward Aloysius Conway, S.J., associate editor of the Jesuit weekly America, at the commencement exercises of the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. "The mind of the nation is becoming troubled, and its nerves are already frayed . . . How else explain the rising mistrust of each other, the roaring bitterness, the ranging of Americans against Americans, the scapegoat hunts, the assault on freedom of opinion, the intolerance of opposition, the increase in calumny, demagoguery, bigotry and smear? I am afraid it is because fear and frustration abound...
Eliot House's tutors, led by the universally respected John Conway, Aliston Burr Senior Tutor, are good. The present tutorial staff is particularly strong in English, Government, and History...
...experiment" in teacher training two years ago, now has 15 colleges in the state participating. The idea is to persuade students to go into teaching by giving them four years of the liberal arts plus a fifth year of professional internship at either the State Teachers' College at Conway or the University of Arkansas. In 1953-54, the plan got 30 recruits. Total applicants for next fall...
...like skiing, though, the snowy hinterlands report generally good to excellent conditions. New Hampshire is one of the most accessible areas for the Harvard skier. North Conway's Cranmore Mountain, whose trails are served more Mountain, whose trails are served by their famous skimobile, offers a variety of trails for most beginning and intermediate skiers. A few miles past North Conway, in the increasingly popular Jackson area, are Balack and thorn Mountains. At Black Mountain there is a 2500-foot Alpine lift, and at Thorn a 4000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows which give access...