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Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of Government, and Henry N. Smith, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, have been named the 1951 winners of the Bancroft Prizes, Dr. Grayson Kirk, vice president and acting head of Columbia University, announced yesterday. The awards carry a $2000 stipend each...
...thought I would be a good fellow so I said O.K.-on one condition-that it should be a really hot number, at the top of its own class. You know the result. I played boogie-woogie, and I enjoyed it!" (The movie: Thousands Cheer, with Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Judy Garland and a clutch of other stars...
Grounds for Marriage (MGM) dishes up some farcical leftovers about a divorcee (Kathryn Grayson) on the make for her ex-husband (Van Johnson). The dialogue and plot maneuvers are determinedly labeled for comedy and remarkably scant of laughs. Since Opera Singer Grayson develops voice trouble and Physician Johnson is a nose & throat specialist with an uppity fiancee (Paula Raymond), any bobby-soxer should be able to triangulate the solution...
...they picked is a trim, 47-year-old political scientist and onetime Ohio high-school principal named Grayson L. Kirk, who arrived at Morningside Heights as an associate professor of government only ten years ago. At Columbia, Grayson Kirk soon showed that he was a first-class administrator as well as teacher, with a talent for making things hum. He threw himself into the work of the Academy of Political Science, headed Columbia's Institute of European Studies. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation staff at Dumbarton Oaks and helped set up the U.N. Security Council...
...such, said the trustees, Grayson Kirk would be Eisenhower's "alter ego," acting in the president's behalf during "necessary absence or in the event of emergency." Last week, when the emergency came, Alter Ego Kirk stepped easily into the university's top job as Columbia's president in everything but name...