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...children in an attempt to bolster the argument of some psychologists that "onlies" tend to do better in life than those folks distracted by sibling rivalries. The compendium is impressive. Among the artists and poets, actors and statesmen, comics and scientists who were only children: Ann-Margret, Ansel Adams, Hannah Arendt, Charles Baudelaire, Willy Brandt, Arthur Burns, Richard Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, Richard Pryor, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Renata Tebaldi, Queen Victoria, Mary Wells, Jonathan Winters, Edmund Wilson. The trouble is, one could easily draw up at least as impressive a litany of luminaries who had brothers and sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Making a Little List | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...other dining halls were closed. But believing that freshmen should not be forced to cross picket lines by eating in the dining hall, the YCC voted to request that Yale offer freshmen the daily stipend on an optional basis. Administrators denied the request, but after meeting the YCC officers, Hannah Gray, Yale's acting president, agreed to the change...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Governing The Ivies | 11/17/1977 | See Source »

...Hannah Gray, Yale provost and acting president, told The Yale Daily News Monday "only critical and demonstrable needs will be exempted from the hiring ban." She said the provost's office will grant exceptions to the hiring suspension only with strong justifications...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Yale Board of Trustees Freezes Faculty Hiring | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

Most members of the Yale community consider Hannah Gray, Yale provost and acting president of the university, as a candidate still under consideration for the vacant post of president of the university, Yale students said yesterday...

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: Yale President | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

...Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Hannah Green dealt with the anxieties about death, sex and insanity that bother many adolescents. The novel, which explores the efforts of an adolescent girl to free herself from a destructive fantasy world, found a wide following, largely because it evoked such sympathy with the schizophrenic heroine's anxieties...

Author: By Anna Clark, | Title: Wilted Roses | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

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