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...Need to Know. One year she skipped note taking entirely to see if she could learn better; she read piles of books, grew rapidly fonder of science, spent nights in a sleeping bag atop her dormitory to try to understand the theory of the expanding universe. She was also Vassar's hop, skip and jump champion, but dating never interested her. "I think I would have liked to go out more," she recalls. "But I just hadn't met anyone I thought was worth giving an evening to. I was pretty absorbed...
...aqua-besques; but on land he was much more vulnerable. He met his end being bludgeoned to death by a bloodthirsty truck driver who took advantage of his tame, trusting nature. Writes Author Maxwell, with emotions of pain and rage that the reader cannot help but share: "I became fonder of him than of almost any human being, and to write in the past tense makes me feel desolate ... I hope he was killed quickly, but I wish he had had one chance to use his teeth...
...fellow Congressmen were granted secret ballots, Harlem's handsome Adam Clayton Powell would doubtless be voted the most talkative, least effective member of the House of Representatives. Nor does his gaping absence record (he missed 51% of roll calls in 1960) make congressional hearts grow fonder. Negro Democrat Powell campaigned for Republican Dwight Eisenhower in" 1956, campaigned for Democrat Jack Kennedy in 1960. He is under indictment for filing a fraudulent income-tax return. But because his Harlem constituents, spellbound by years of racist oratory, have sent him to Congress for nine uninterrupted terms. Congressman Powell last week inherited...
...great 19th century rationalist optimists, that in his Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle into existence. Give Shaw an actress, a breed he regarded as intrinsically brainless, and the sage would begin playing post office, or frequently postcard. Absence definitely made Shaw's heart grow fonder, and for added emotional insurance the women were al ways married, as was he. The two most celebrated of these epistolary romances involved Mrs. Pat Campbell and Ellen Terry, but the headiest, cranially speaking, has only just come to light. Shaw's heroine in this instance was a well...
Nearness makes the heart no fonder, an Amherst survey team decided recently when it polled 250 Smith girls about their dating preference...