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...Departments do more than ignore a man's contribution as Senior Tutor; they often count it against him. Academics apparently prefer scholars who are strictly scholars and not administrators, too. The Senior Tutors who make good usually have House Masters slugging for them in their own department: consider Mason Hammond and Ernest May in Kirkland House; John Bullitt and Joel Porte in Quincy House; and Eliot Perkins and Franklin Ford in Lowell House...
...maintain even minimal standards of hygiene. One example is New York's Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where a cutback in state appropriations recently caused conditions to deteriorate to the crisis point (TIME, Feb. 14). Talking about the care in state custodial institutions generally, Willowbrook Director Jack Hammond says: "It's inhuman. We're treating the mentally retarded as if they have somehow offended society...
Died. Hodding Carter, 65, newspaper editor and Deep South champion of civil rights; of a heart attack; in Greenville, Miss. With only $367, Carter and his wife set up a small daily in Hammond, La., in 1932 and began doing battle with the state's powerful Senator, Huey Long. Though sometimes reduced to trading advertising space for food, Carter managed to survive Long's attempt to legislate the paper out of business. A year after Long's assassination, Carter started a new paper in Greenville, then bought out his only rival to form the Delta Democrat-Times...
GERALDINE HAMMOND...
...pressure, Governor Nelson Rockefeller has canceled the cut, announcing that the department's budget will instead be increased by $20 million. That will allow Willowbrook to fill at least 300 vacant positions. But it is unlikely to improve conditions at the institution. "Attendants aren't enough," explains Hammond. "We need to get 2,000 patients out of here...