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Died. John Collier, 84, anthropologist and writer, who as Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1933-45) fought to secure civil rights for the American Indian; in Taos, N. Mex. In 1934, Collier scored his greatest coup, the Indian Reorganization Act, a "constitution" that he helped push through Congress, gave the earliest Americans home rule and protection from unscrupulous white traders and land grabbers...
...distinct oddity-a gangly, shrill-voiced, germ-ridden, manic-depressive esthete, caustic as lye except when caught in the eternally adolescent marshmallow bogs of homosexual passion. "Duncan Grant is the full moon of heaven," he wrote to Maynard Keynes, who was one of his earliest friends and confidants. In fact, Keynes was something more. Holroyd discloses that like Strachey, Keynes was a homosexual and a frequent rival for the affections of winsome young men; it was a proclivity that did not affect Keynes's later standing as one of the world's great economists...
...today's practitioners acknowledge the pioneering efforts made by New Jersey-born Allan Kaprow, 40, who a decade ago began creating recognizable environments. One of the earliest was his 1962 Words; it consisted simply of random words lettered on pieces of paper that spectators were invited to staple at random onto the walls of a room. The idea, Kaprow explains now, was to create an intentionally sloppy, three-dimensional roomful of random art, in the abstract expressionist mode of the 1950s, when the wall-filling action canvases of Jackson Pollock were already being referred to as "environmental painting." Kaprow...
Died. Charles C. Lauritsen, 76, nuclear physicist who built one of the earliest atom smashers and was part of the team that developed the atomic bomb; after a long illness; in Pasadena, Calif. Working at the California Institute of Technology in 1934, Lauritsen, with his atom smasher, became the first to produce neutrons with artificially accelerated particles...
Director of Athletics Adolph Samborski has interviewed each of the more than 60 applicants for the basketball post personally. Samborski will be at an NCAA conference until May 2, so no final decision can be expected until the middle of Reading Period, at the earliest...