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...REASON BEGINS (732 pp.) -Will and Ariel Durant-Simon & Schuster...
...Buckingham Palace of Clark Kerr's empire, across the bay from San Francisco. Few campuses boast an odder beginning. Berkeley's impecunious parent was a Congregationalist academy launched in 1853 by a Yale clergyman from Massachusetts. The campus was a fandango dance hall, but Founder Henry Durant in a letter home glowed over the "beauty and salubrity" of the place. He hoped to educate gold miners, and believed in looking on the bright side...
Later the Rev. Mr. Durant bought 160 acres out on Strawberry Creek, named it after Philosopher George Berkeley, the poetic Irish bishop of Cloyne ("Westward the course of empire takes its way"). The westward course was a poor one until Governor Frederick Low put tax and land-grant money into the campus, and 92 years ago started the University of California...
...Andy Williams Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Singers Cab Galloway and Julie London, Comedian Jack Durant, Singer-Pianist Norma Douglas...
...MOLLIE DURANT Evanston...