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...Wilson also carefully groomed a daringly different successor, Vice President Harry Ransom, who became president last fall when Wilson moved up to chancellor. Says one admiring facultyman of Ransom, who now becomes chancellor: "He doesn't just walk out on a limb for you. He climbs out on a twig, and jumps up and down on the leaf...
...theater for drama students, a $2,000,000 science building, the championship football team of the Far Western Conference and 300 foreign students. S.F. teaches everything from engineering to skindiving. Most impressive feature: a topflight creative writing department including Novelist Walter van Tilburg (The Oxbow Incident) Clark. Another noted facultyman: Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa...
...Lindsay and Russell Grouse (Life with Father), pleased Philadelphia (and was bought immediately by Hollywood). Adapted from a rather more serious novel (The Homecoming Game), the story concerns an overly ethical professor of ethics (Hans Conried) faced with flunking a star basketball player before the big game. A fellow facultyman: Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, making one of his occasional appearances as an actor. Wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer's Henry T. Murdock: "An evening of hearty laughter with no complicating complexes." Opens on Broadway...
...classes, and I said 'this is art and I like it.' " One historian would take trusted students on hikes, and once safe from being overheard, would deliver lectures as he had in pre-Communist days. Though there were student spies ("I could always tell," says one facultyman. "They took notes at the wrong times"), teachers and students found subtle ways of communicating. Says a historian: "If I had to refer to the 'Soviet liberation of Poland,' for example, I would inject a tiny pause or hesitation in my voice before and after the expression. No change...
...year-old dynamo it has as chancellor. In his 18 months in office. Edward H. Litchfield has made it clear that he wants to make Pitt nothing less than one of the top six universities in the country. His ambition has proved contagious. "Ever since he came," says one facultyman, "the university has been in a ferment. There is a terrific amount of soul-searching going on. People are looking at themselves in Litchfield's mirror...