Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford University in 1958, one top applicant for a $2,500 Wallace E. Stegner creative writing fellowship was moody Mitchell J. Strucinski, 35, author of two poignant short stories in the Atlantic. Professor Stegner himself was much impressed. Only one thing gave him pause: Author Strucinski was in Washington State's McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, finishing a five-year term for mail theft and forgery. Stilling its doubts, Stanford took Strucinski, who came highly recommended not only by an Atlantic editor but also by the warden at McNeil. Last week, when police arrested Strucinski for the tenth time...
...Stanford's prestigious premises, Strucinski put all that behind him. He affected a pipe and married a pretty English major. He worked hard, developed a particular interest in the Stanford library. Even after finishing his fellowship last year, with warm praise from Professor Stegner, Strucinski haunted the library...
...supermarket trash can and a county dump. Then Strucinski gave himself up at FBI headquarters, was arrested for interstate commerce in stolen documents. Last week, out on bail, he was arrested twice for burglary. Said Stanford's crestfallen Professor Stegner: "He was a talented boy. He earned his fellowship honestly." If convicted. Student Strucinski faces a fellowship of up to ten years in federal prison...
...Sarrepalli Radhakrishnan, a leading modern philosopher dedicated the University's new Center for the Study of World Religions with an hour-long address, "The Fellowship of the Spirit." Although not favoring an eclectic religious approach, Radhakrishnan supported knowledge of other religions, the ways in which man "seeks harmonious living...
...Sarrepalli Radhakrishnan, vice-President of India, will inaugurate the University's new Center for the Study of World Religions today, with a speech on "Fellowship of the Spirit." The Center was completed this fall...