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...maverick Ashanti who began his career combining debt collecting with newspaper reporting, Edusei got into politics, and did even better. He was named in two corruption investigations, and after one was forced out of Nkrumah's Cabinet. He is back in favor now as Nkrumah's key subordinate, enjoying power and living it up with two wives, one of whom proudly boasts of the $200 dresses and $45 shoes that Edusei gives...
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, the maverick millionaire who served as a U.S. Communist Party angel for years, was secretary of the Civil Rights Congress bail fund that posted bond for a long procession of U.S. party leaders on trial for Smith Act violations...
...Metropolitan Opera roster to have her own TV series, and both bouncy Guy Mitchell and bland Pat Boone will head up their own variety shows. Warner is busy grinding out reels for a new "adult" horse opera called Sugar-foot to alternate with Cheyenne, and another called Maverick (with new Cowboy James Garner) to oppose the Allen-Sullivan powerhouse Sunday nights. Reliable old Character Actor Walter Brennan stars in a folksy situation comedy called The Real McCoys, and OSS will chronicle the World War II cloak-and-dagger exploits of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's men. ABC will offer...
Among variegated practitioners of talk-it-out treatment for emotional problems, Chicago's Psychologist Carl Ransom Rogers, 55, has long been a maverick. He calls his method "client-centered therapy," tries manfully to define it: "We see therapy as an experience, not in intellectual terms. We treat the client as a person, not as an object to be manipulated and directed." Snorts a Chicago psychoanalyst of neo-Freudian persuasion: "Rogers' method is unsystematic, undisciplined and humanistic. Rogers doesn't analyze and doesn't diagnose. We have no common ground." To Rogers that is fine...
...done so many times more than 30 years before, stood a bird-like man of 85. Former President Alexander Meiklejohn (pronounced Meekle-john) back at Amherst for an official visit, was the hit of the reunion show -as mild-mannered and spry as ever, but still very much the maverick who stirred up some of the biggest educational storms of the 1930s...