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...opening convocation of Brown University, the principal speaker, Yale University's President A. Whitney Griswold, an articulate man who believes that too many of his contemporaries are tongue-tied, rued the passing of the lively art of conversation. Said Dr. Griswold...
...hushed and shushed in dimly lighted parlors by television audiences who used to read, argue, and even play bridge, an old-fashioned card game requiring speech. It is shouted down by devil's advocates, thrown into disorder by points of order . . . subdued by soft-voiced censors." To Griswold the disorderly noises issuing from the human race may lead to ugly consequences: "Conversation . . . laid the foundation of the civilization we are dedicated to defend. It was conversation of which the New Testament, the greatest teaching ever recorded, was composed . . . Great books, scientific discoveries, works of art, great perceptions of truth...
When Senator Dwight Griswold died this year, the governor filed as a candidate to serve the remaining four years of Griswold's term. His chief opponent in the G.O.P. primary was veteran (eight terms) Congressman Carl T. Curtis, 49. Last week the primary election ballots were counted, and Curtis was an overwhelming winner. Crosby, it seemed, had carried honesty...
...handiwork, build boats and furniture; the Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, who is currently helping fellow airmen rebuild a private airplane, and has set up do-it-yourself workshops at SAC bases for everyone from airmen to SAC's vice-commander, Major General Francis H. Griswold, who is reconditioning a sports car. Recently, the hobbyists found themselves in a comic panel called Do It Yourself, now syndicated in 83 newspapers...
Three Senators. All this means that Nebraskans, for the first time in history, will elect three U.S. Senators in November. One will finish the remaining four years of Butler's term. One will finish the last two months of the expiring term left vacant by Griswold's death this spring (now filled by Interim Appointee Eva Bowring). The third will begin a new six-year term as successor to Senator Bowring's successor, whoever that...