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...Seth D. Koven, a graduate student in history and member of the ad-hoc committee that organized the week, said the week's "first interest is to promote the study of women's history at Harvard...
Bernie De Koven, 38, is the game designer for Ideal Toys, makers of last year's big-selling Electronic Detective-similar to Stop Thief, this year's Parker Bros, entry. His office is cluttered-a creative mulch of dolls' heads, car wheels, batteries, record-player motors, computer entrails, synthesizers and oscilloscopes-but he knows where the action is. "Try an experiment," says De Koven. "Bring in 30 of your most beautiful mechanical games and two cruddy electronic games to a group of kids, and see what happens...
...Koven, who used to invent and teach "socially interactive" games to educators and underprivileged children, thinks that electronic games are having an enormous impact on the ways in which children perceive themselves and their social realities. "You might almost say that childhood is tending toward a kind of autism and that children are seeking a way to stimulate themselves. With electronic games, they have it. You can play by your self. It's real exciting. You can carry the games anywhere. They look neat. They cause envy. They're expensive possessions so consequently there's a whole...
Marriage Revealed. Louise de Koven ("Wendy") Wanamaker, 22, daughter of John Rodman Wanamaker, chairman of Philadelphia's Wanamaker department store chain, herself an accomplished horsewoman; and Richard Hendriks Jr., 27, formerly the family horse trainer (now employed by New York's P. G. Johnson Stables), the son of a New Jersey butcher; some time in the last half of 1963, but just when and where everyone declines...
...Koven was enrolled at the University of Cincinnati as a prodigy of 14, but he took his tuition money and decamped for Germany, where he dabbled in piano and composition and found his "love life crys tallized at 15" ("I made Don Juan and Casanova look like amateurs"). When his money ran out, his mother sent him the price of a ticket home. He gave up composition for painting, painting for newspaper work in New Jersey, finally drifted to WNYC, where "they've regretted it ever since. They can't stand me, but they can't fire...