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Fast Talk. In Upper Marlboro, Md., retired Princeton Professor Haig Galajikan, arrested for speeding, gave the judge a lengthy lecture, trying to show mathematically that if he had really been going as fast as the cop said, the cop himself must have been doing 147 m.p.h. The judge heard him out, fined...
...Marlboro, N.Y., the farmhouse of the late Frederic W. Goudy, famed designer of printing types, was put up for auction. Till the day of the sale, Goudy's family had hoped that somebody might offer to make a "shrine" of the place, but nobody had come forward. Then Ralph C. Coxhead, manufacturer of VariTyper machines (widely used by publishers whose typesetters go on strike), got the farm on an $18,000 bid. His plan: to "perpetuate it as a shrine...
...Violinist Adolf Busch, gave a benefit concert in nearby Brattleboro and raised $3,800 to start the money-raising ball rolling. All summer, carpenters and masons have pounded nails and poured concrete to convert the colonial farmhouses for college use. For weeks an advance party of prospective Marlboro students has been working too. That is part of the Hendricks idea: at Marlboro, city-bred students will learn to use their hands: raise pigs, tap maple trees, make their own skis...
This week Marlboro College is ready to open its doors, officially on schedule, but there is still plenty of work to be done. The dirt road from Molly Stark Highway to Potash Hill needs a macadam surface. The college "laboratories"-war-surplus huts from an army air base-have not arrived...
Call Me Mister. For the first year, at least, Marlboro plans to admit only 100 students, 60% of them ex-G.I.s, with New England solidly represented. Faculty members will have no ranks or titles; just plain "Mister" will do. (Hendricks picked up that idea at the American University in Biarritz, where he taught English to G.I.s in World War II.) The college will have no rules except those voted at a "town meeting" of faculty and students...