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...sexy nightgown that her husband had given her was told in detail by an artful clerk of the care her husband had taken in selecting it. "After all," cooed the clerk, "isn't it better for you to have it than some other woman?" The lady kept the gown...
Always the modern woman, she created a sensation when she appeared at a dinner party in a daringly low-cut gown; when Socialite Chauncey Depew asked her what was holding it up, she cooed, "Your age and my discretion." Outfitted in the latest fashions and draped with $500,000 worth of jewelry ("gifts from my admirers"), she cut a figure of elegance and sauciness on her cross-country tours in a private Pullman. The press trailed her everywhere, reported her forays into the Monte Carlo casinos, her nude swims in the Mediterranean, her dietetic secrets (one meal a day, fortified...
Until recently, most urban universities tended to stand aloofly apart from the cities in which they lived. But the schools' hunger for more land, the traffic and housing problems they create, have sharpened old town-gown tensions - and have also made administrators more conscious of the fact that their institutions may possess the intellectual resources to help create what Hester calls "a renaissance in urban life." University of Pennsylvania's President Gaylord P. Harnwell believes that the modern university "is not beholden to any political or economic master," and thus is "the last major institution of urban life...
...Town v. Gown. Heyns also refused to seek dismissal of charges against the seven nonstudents and four students arrested in the disorder, insisting: "We have no intention of accepting a pattern of granting general immunity to all violators of student rules merely because the situation gets confused or passions are aroused." And he said he could not promise that police would never again be used on campus, because this "would only serve to escalate every incident into a crisis. Freedom presupposes order, and order presupposes rules and the ability to enforce them...
...faculty, which passed the buck in the campus uproar two years ago, would support him. In a calmly delivered speech, Heyns told 1,000 members of the Academic Senate that the campus was faced with "a chronic condition" in which nonstudent agitators, in "one of the most unusual town-gown antagonisms in history," had made the campus a target for protest. He drew a burst of applause when he said, "There are hundreds of faculty members and thousands of students who are heartily sick of the unrest, turbulence and the tenuous control we have over our community and who yearn...