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...Marina, a Cuban exile who runs a private school. In Houston, former District Attorney Frank Briscoe, a cousin of Governor Dolph Briscoe, led a field of twelve candidates in a muted, gloves-on primary. The gloves are expected to come off when Briscoe faces former City Councilman Jim McConn, a Houston developer, in a runoff next week. In Washington State, two former newsmen are about to take some of their own medicine. TV Analyst Charles Royer was elected mayor of Seattle, and TV Anchorman Ron Blair became mayor of Spokane...
PILGRIM'S INN (346 pp.) - Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McConn...
What does a college president do all day long? Most undergraduates do not know. To them their President is a vague figure who occasionally descends from his shadowy musnud to preside over chapel ceremonies. To the cinema-going layman he is a capped-&-gowned comedian. But Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University, in the current North American Review, drew a startlingly different picture, showing the college president as a harrowed executive plying "a dangerous trade," holding down "a man-killing...
Sample presidential day according to Dean McConn...
Further bewailing the lot of the college president, Dean McConn said that all of his assistants are "his own creatures, his own appointees . . . his yes-men, as are likewise the professors." And Dean McConn deduced that the strenuous life of the college president accounts for the fact that "within the preceding nine months [November report] 55 colleges and universities made changes in their highest executive office. . . . Since there are only about 750 colleges in the country, these changes represent a turnover of 7.3% in nine months. Surely this is an alarming rate of academic mortality...