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...more questions, studied harder, and made higher grades than any students before them. Many were poor boys, knew education was a privilege, and not just something father paid for. "They had men's heads on men's shoulders," says Acting President Frank Bailey of Ohio's Kenyon College. Adds Harvard's Director of Financial Aid John Monro: "These fellows knocked out the playboy era of American colleges. They set a pace that is still with us-and it is here to stay...
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Katharine Cornell, actress and great-great-granddaughter of Kenyon's third president Litt.D...
Ball-Joint Suspension. One of her viewers was Howard Wilson, a vice president at the Kenyon & Eckhardt advertising agency, who thought she looked "awful cool, calm and relaxed," and asked her to do the Lincoln commercials on the Ed Sullivan Show, while Ed continued to deliver the sales message for Mercury. There were some bad moments. Wilson was not sure a girl would be convincing talking about such things as "high torque, turbodrive transmission" and "ball-joint suspension," and there were some fears that Julia might be too gentle to compete with "hard-selling" male announcers. Researcher Horace Schwerin came...
Died. Dr. Gordon Keith Chalmers, 52, president since 1937 of Ohio's small (500 students), distinguished Kenyon College; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hyannis, Mass. Founded in 1824 as a training ground for clergymen, Kenyon later became a seat of liberal education, a concept warmly embraced by Rhodes Scholar Chalmers, who took as his lifelong challenge the "gigantic inquiry taken from the Old Testament: 'What is man that Thou art mindful...