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Honorable mention went to Jane M. Rabb '61, for "Henry James' The Ambassadors: A Work of Art," Thomas D. Hogan, Jr. '61, for "Social and Moral Attitudes of Lewiss Carroll," and Herbert E. Weene '61, for "Verse and Individuality: A Study in Marlovian Characterization...
...physics department of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. The janitor waved casually, called "Hi, Van." The U.S.'s foremost space scientist waved back and went on to his office and its clutter of models-rockets, satellites, nose cones and other esoteric objects. "I'm here now; you can start paying me," he grinned at his secretary, Agnes Costello, and disappeared into his inner office to prepare for his regular 10:30 lecture...
...bill got no support from unions or industry. Steelworkers Union Chief David McDonald opposed the bill because he felt it would have "a stifling effect on free collective bargaining." Freezing prices to halt inflation, said U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, is "like trying to check the rising pressure in a steam boiler by plugging up the safety valve." The real cause of rising industrial prices since the war, charged Blough, is rising employment costs, which now "represent more than 75% of all costs." Furthermore, said Blough, the O'Mahoney bill would "diminish still further the profit incentive," could...
...will build 30 retail department stores, about 85 catalogue stores, four distribution centers. By the end of 1963, it will add a total of 90 new retail stores, 205 new catalogue stores, ten new distribution centers. Gearing for the expansion, Ward's boosted Executive Vice President Paul M. Hammaker, 56, to president; Chairman Barr gave up the presidency, remains chief executive...
...unexpurgated copy of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. This week the surreptitious passing of tattered, badly printed copies comes to a halt. What may start is the noisiest censorship yap since James Joyce's Ulysses was declared literature by Federal Judge John M. Woolsey in 1933. Into the bookshops goes an unexpurgated edition (Grove Press; 368 pp.; $6), the first ever published in the U.S. It comes forearmed with assurances by pundits (Edmund Wilson, Jacques Barzun, Mark Schorer, Archibald MacLeish) that Lady Chatterley is not only a decent but an important book...