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...plowing under the football team, concedes realistically that to attain distinction, a university needs endowment, and good football teams stimulate endowment giving. But in putting the accent on "distinction," he plans "a strong academic program," library expansion, and increased discussion of controversial subjects in the classroom. A Phi Beta Kappa himself, he also has a special goal: to raise Maryland's academic standing so that, like more than 150 other colleges and universities, it will be qualified to award Phi Beta Kappa keys...
...Hands. Last week CQ celebrated its tenth anniversary, it got its first publisher. The man who will fill the new position is 51-year-old Buel Fellows Weare, a Princeton Phi Beta Kappa (1925), onetime manager of the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, later boss of the T rib's European edition, and, most recently, assistant to the publisher. Weare's job, as outlined by CQ's Owners and Co-Editors Nelson and Henrietta Poynter: to add quantity to CQ's quality circulation...
Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 49, whose Phi Beta Kappa key failed to ward off the rude fisticuffs of husky Cinemug Tom Neal in their brawl over the fickle favors of Cineminx Barbara Payton three years ago, settled out of court with Lloyds of London, accepted $17,500 insurance for his clobbering. In reply to Tone's original $63,666,66 suit, Lloyds claimed, in effect, that he had displayed indiscreet valor by provoking Neal, then by sticking his hitherto unmarred face in the way of Big Tom's flying knuckles...
...done it? Not, apparently, by being a grind. "It may sound terrible," she said, "but I averaged about five dates a week." An accomplished pianist, she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, played plenty of tennis, even joined the chorus line at the university's spring carnival show. Somewhere along the way, she also found time to get engaged to Fred Sorenson, 29, the news director of the local TV station, WCIA...
...bail after a 19-year-old M.S.C. coed accused him of rape. Otherwise, said Coach Hugh ("Duff") Daugherty, "our squad's behavior is as good as any in the country." ¶ Finally fed up with an accumulation of ugly incidents, Northwestern University shut down the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house - the first fraternity ever banned in the university's history. Among the grievances against it: 40% of the brothers are on academic probation; eight have been suspended from school after unauthorized drinking parties; one, upon leaving such a party, got into an automobile accident in which his coed...