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...Captain's Table (Rank; 20th Century-Fox) is a so-so stateroom farce in which an honest clod of a freighter captain (John Gregson) is put in command of a passenger liner, only to find that it is a vessel of iniquity, whose officers are mainly concerned with smuggling cigarettes and snuggling with lady voyagers. Before long the captain has taken a pratfall into a tray of lobster newburg, walked shudderingly across a boat deck alive with cries of water-borne passion, indulged in a spirited pie-throwing match with a roomful of children, and repulsed the sort...
...Education section, you described Gregson Davis as "the first Negro so honored," as chosen commencement orator at Harvard...
...youngsters barely made it to Cambridge. Children of a prosperous businessman in Antigua in The West Indies, they expected a British education. "All my ambition was to go to England," Gregson admits. It took persuasion by an uncle who had gone to Harvard to convince Gregson's father that Harvard was every bit as good as Oxford, and to get Gregson to apply for a scholarship. Cecile wanted to go to Jamaica's University College of The West Indies, but agreed to go to the first school that offered her a scholarship. Impressed by an essay...
Neither regrets the decision. Gregson, who plans to become a classics teacher, says of Harvard: "Here I think my mind was stretched quite a bit.'' He played on the Harvard cricket team, each year collected a prize for Latin. Cecile, who hopes to join The West Indies' diplomatic corps, did well in her government major, worked with the Girl Scouts...
...four years neither brother nor sister experienced any racial trouble. Says Gregson: "At Harvard there is no difference between people...