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Speaking in Dudley Hall at the first annual dinner for commuting freshmen, Dean Leighton told members of the Class of 1955 that non-residents as well as resident students should actively participate in all branches of University life...
...Leighton praised the founders of the Non-Resident Students' Center for doing what he termed "a remarkable job," and hoped the present program for expanding Dudley's facilities would continue...
...TIME, July 23). Not one of the 126 persons arrested for rioting was indicted. Instead, the grand jury indicted George C. Adams, a Negro, who is part owner of the building where Clark leased a home; Charles Edwards, a Negro rental agent who handled the deal, and George N. Leighton, a respected Negro lawyer who acted as attorney for Clark and for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People after the riots started...
Chicago, which is considerably more tolerant than its satellite town of Cicero, is hopping mad over the indictments, especially at the charge against Lawyer Leighton. The three Negroes, Leighton, Edwards and Adams, are accused of "conspiracy to damage property." The grand jury seems to think that it is wrong to rent an apartment in Cicero to a Negro, wrong to defend his rights, but O.K. to burn his furniture and chase him out of town...
...away some of the witch-doctor illusions about psychiatry, and at blasting psychoanalytic cliches ("Oddly enough, children from happy homes are sometimes the most unfit; they take their parents' happiness for granted and don't learn what hard work goes into it") Blonde, 43-year-old Isabel Leighton, who edited a 1949 bestseller, The Aspirin Age, is an ex-war correspondent and actress who first took up psychiatry as a hobby six years ago. Now a board member of the Menninger Foundation, and the National Association for Mental Health, she aims to keep What's On Your...