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...Women's Cards. In the end, dumpy Muriel Goodwin runs her hero husband just as she has run him since high-school days. And, up in Connecticut, Mrs. Skelton wins too: Sid decides to stick at his job to make his wife and daughter happy. In marriage, Novelist Marquand seems to be saying a little petulantly, the women hold all the cards...
...turned sour. Williamsburg began to hear ugly rumors about the athletic department. Football Coach Rube McCray and Basketball Coach Barney Wilson suddenly resigned. At that point, the Board of Visitors decided to investigate. The board found that, as far back as 1949, the athletic department had been falsifying the high-school transcripts of promising athletes to make sure they would get into the college. And last spring, Dean Nelson Marshall had found that the department had been giving unearned credits in physical education. But it was not until July, just before the two coaches resigned, that the president got around...
...Martin, who had worked a couple of summer vacations for the Illinois Central Railroad. "He will become a vice president of the Illinois Central," she said. "Some day he will come back to see us in his private car, and he will invite the members of his old high-school class to have dinner with...
...executive under W.R. for the past ten years. Massive, dressy Dick Berlin, 57, got his start as a shipping clerk after a high-school education in his native Omaha. Full of Irish charm and aggressiveness, he served as a World War I naval lieutenant, began his career in the Hearst organization, without knowing it, when he met Mrs. Hearst at a party given for World War I servicemen. Charmed with Lieut. Berlin, Mrs. Hearst got him a postwar job selling advertising for Hearst's Motor Boating magazine. He was such a star salesman that he rose to be general...
...could be so naive, admitted Dean R.B. Browne of the University of Illinois, as to "believe the appearance of a blue-chip athlete on a college campus would take anyone by surprise." At William and Mary, two coaches resigned last week after the athletic department was charged with faking high-school grades to get promising athletes in. Even parents have been tainted, said Retiring President Alexander G. Ruthven of the University of Michigan: they have come to believe "that their sons ought to be paid for their competition...