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Born. To Clifford Odets, 38, brilliant leftish playwright of the '30s (Waiting for Lefty), who cashed in on his talents as a Hollywood writer-director (None But the Lonely Heart), and Bette Grayson Odets, 26, his second wife: their (and his) first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight...
Whether or not the whole world has been badly brought up, most citizens of the United Nations agree that there is something wrong with education in the Axis countries. One man who wants to correct that miseducation is Grayson N. Kefauver, dean (on leave) of Stanford's School of Education and State Department consultant on cultural cooperation. This week, after six months' study and consultation with fellow experts in London, Kefauver made an interim report. Its basic recommendation: set up a United Nations educational and cultural agency. Among other things this agency, by action or advice, would help...
...Five scholarly gentlemen were about to fly to London as U.S. delegates to an Allied conference on postwar education. They were: Arkansas Congressman James William Fulbright, former president of the University of Arkansas; Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish; U.S. Education Commissioner John Ward Studebaker; the State Department's Grayson Neikirk Kefauver; and Ralph Edmond Turner...
Leland Stanford's Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver: he showed such ability to organize educators in favor of U.S. entry into an International Education Office (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943) that the State Department put him to work on the problem officially...
...Republican victor was Chester O. Carrier, 47, longtime Grayson County attorney. Quiet, slow-spoken and slightly rotund, Carrier had punched cattle in Wyoming, railroaded in Pennsylvania, sold Bibles in the Appalachians. Outside Grayson County, no one knew much about him. But they did know Dan Talbott...