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...things which most distinguishes the American university from its European counterpart is the prevailing custom of marriage in graduate school. Ever since World War II graduate schools have been teeming with married students. Whether this sociological change has resulted in a more stable and serene breed of student is unknown, but it has undoubtedly had something to do with a startling rise in the birth rate among the educated classes. Not to be surpassed by the Veteran's Villages of the state universities, Harvard has recently done its bit to foster the large cultivated family, and incidentally save America from...
...Three's 1957 models. They are lower (by four inches), higher priced (from $1 to $104), more powerful (an optional 245 h.p. V8. v. the top 1956 225 h.p. V-8). For the first time. Ford also has two body sizes and two wheel-bases. Customers will have the choice of the 116-in. wheelbase Custom, three inches longer than in '56, or the higher-priced 118-in. wheelbase Fairlane, fully five inches longer. Where Ford virtuously sold safety in 1956 and watched rival Chevrolet carry off the honors by 300,000 units, it will sell size...
...often overlooked by Northern Crusaders who want to ride off on a charger--whether black or white--and blaze a trail for The Cause of Integration. And this is that the North, too, has its racial problem. True, it is somewhat hidden behind residential segregation or unwritten custom, but it is just as real, and just as wrong. The problem becomes more apparent when one takes a look at the statistics of the very few Northern Negroes who are adequately prepared for college or who have annual incomes over $5000. Once accepted as a national instead of a sectional problem...
...grey silk suit trimmed with gold-shot cuffs and lapels ("It cost $400"), Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace, 36, sailed for a six-week concert tour of Europe with 34 pieces of luggage including 60 complete changes of costume plus a custom-made $15,000 glass-topped piano. Meanwhile, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, unregenerate enemy of "momism" and of Liberace as "mom's darling boy," muttered darkly that Liberace is "a superannuated Little Lord Fauntleroy. When he came to Miami, I was going to round up every guy with any masculinity, and we were going to stone that...
First of all, he pointed out that the Dickeys had gleefully left their mark for twenty years, and that even the president of Harvard could not alter the cake of custom...