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Died. Catherine Drinker Bowen, 76, stately, spirited patrician who found a large audience as the author of well-researched, fictionalized biographies of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Yankee from Olympus), Sir Edward Coke (The Lion and the Throne) and John Adams (John Adams and the American Revolution); of cancer; in Haverford...
...whole thing" was an attempt by John R. Coleman, 51, a former Ford Foundation executive and now president of Haverford College, to break what he calls "the lockstep"-the educational process that leads in a straight line from kindergarten through graduate school, and often onward into the walled-in offices of academia. Coleman is a labor economist (among his books is Labor Problems, 1953), but the idea of actually going out and doing physical labor first occurred to him three years ago when he heard about the clash between hardhat construction workers and antiwar student demonstrators on Wall Street. "That...
...Coleman asked why but was given no reason. "It was amazingly demoralizing," he says. "I'd never been fired and I'd never been unemployed. For three days I walked the streets. Though I had a bank account and a job waiting for me back at Haverford, I got an inkling of how professionals my age feel when they lose their job and their confidence begins to sink...
...April 14, Coleman decided that enough was enough, so he set sail for Europe ("I love art. I love opera"), returning just in time for Haverford's commencement exercises, where he told the students, "There is a need to vary the rhythms in your life." Coleman does not believe that every college president should collect garbage-although he says one of them has expressed envy of his sabbatical, as have two bankers, two reporters and a minister-but he has recommended to the trustees that Haverford students be not just permitted but required to take time out for work...
...some ways Whiting's life was as mysterious as his death. A former TIME correspondent (1968-1971) who grew up in Washington and graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Whiting, 26, loved to surround himself with Gatsby-like glamour and intrigue. Though not wealthy, he would lunch by himself with a bottle of champagne and fly to London to have a suit made-then fly back again the next week for a second fitting. When he became TIME'S Hollywood correspondent and began hobnobbing with stars, Whiting's fantasies became reality-for a time, anyway. During...