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...more than twice as many liberal arts students as regular aggies. Engineering enrollment has jumped 48% in the past year. Like all Cal campuses, Davis takes only the top 12% of California high school students (out-of-staters need a B+ average). One result: a new Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Another: Cal President Clark Kerr's own son attends Davis...
...Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected nine seniors this fall. They are Melanie Adams, of Moors Hall and Lyme, N.H.; Susan Carey, of 124 Walker St. and Washington, D.C.; Katherine Cullinan, of 124 Walker St. and Glenn Ellyn, Ill.; Sondra Gamov, of Jordan J and Teaneck...
Writer of the new section is Associate Editor William Bowen, a graduate of Princeton (Phi Beta Kappa, '48) and holder of a master's degree in history from the Yale Graduate School, who has been a TIME staffer since 1949. Working with him will be Researcher Karen Burger Booth. Both move to The Law from The Nation, where both handled many stories dealing with intricate aspects of law. Senior editor of the section is Richard Seamon, a Yalesman ('40) who once attended Columbia Law School for a short time but does not offer that as a qualification...
...lovely day in 1961, and in a springtime mood the students at Pennsylvania's little Allegheny College waited for their distinguished guest speaker, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas. A slender, brown-haired Kappa Kappa Gamma named Joan Carol Martin was especially anxious. After all, Joan was a political science major, an honor student who was deeply interested in juridical philosophy-particularly as expounded by Justice Douglas. Introduced to Douglas by an Allegheny professor, Joan escorted him about the campus. She was duly impressed, and charmed...
Serious Martyr. Silliphant became terribly serious about television scripts only ten years ago. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California, he joined 20th Century-Fox and had risen to the post of Eastern publicity manager before he decided that "it was time either to write or be unhappy for the rest of my life." He batted out a short story that the fiction editor of Collier's deemed "the most horrible story she'd ever received." Silliphant passed it on to Screen Directors' Playhouse and promptly got an enthusiastic acceptance and a check...