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...Your Mind? (Tues. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is one television show that seriously considers the neuroses of troubled people. Twenty of its 30 minutes are given to the filmed story of a mental-health problem; the remaining ten minutes show a panel discussion by Moderator Isabel Leighton and her guests: a psychiatrist and two laymen...
Though frankly puzzled as to why he had been selected as subject for a Profile, Mr. Leighton does admit to holding down one of the busiest jobs in the University. In late Spring, when men are submitted to his office, he is faced with the task of assigning the men to rooms, selecting proctors for the Yard, and securing 100 freshmen advisers in the various fields...
Coming here in 1916 from Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Del Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore year for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and was given his degree in 1919. The first job be took was in textile mill in Rhode Island, putting a glass on cloth. That ended when the mill shut down. Next he tried selling Addressograph machine, but soon hied back to Cambridge and to the Business School...
...have become more and more enmeshed in the Dean's Office affairs," he wrote for his class '25th alumni report, "and my claims as an economist are feeble." In the printing of the book the last word was altered to read "feeble-minded," but this Dean Leighton laughs about and possibly regards as a delayed "College" prank...
...Freshmen is touring the country's high schools As a salesman for the University. On these trips he particularly tries to debunk the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class have served as police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City...