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...Congregationalists are proud of being free churches with our own local autonomy . . . I'm not one who likes to be bossed." So testified grey, capable Moderator Helen Kenyon of the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches before New York Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink. But last week...
Justice Steinbrink decided that boss-hating Moderator Kenyon and her General Council associates had been a bit too bossy themselves...
...rope sliding, ordered all proctors to see that their charges had clambered down a twelve-footer at least twice. Some, like Freshman John Brown of Holworthy Hall, practised from their windows (see cut), others in the gym. Among Harvard's reasons from stricter enforcement: last winter's Kenyon College fire, when nine students lost their lives (TIME, March 14), and last month's blaze (three dead) at the University of Oklahoma...
Following Burlingame, Elizabeth Janeway, author of "Daisy Kenyon," deplored what she described as a marked tendency among modern writers to fear any kind of power-political or social-and as a result to preach a doctrine of "wilful irresponsibility" in their books. Mrs. Janeway concluded, however, that "we are on an up-curve of talent and ability...and our best writers are, perhaps more than ever, truly concerned with how people live...
Miss Janeway, also a novelist, is best known as the author of "Daisy Kenyon." Burlingame is a free-lance writer and, critic...