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That very reputation has made him a poet's poet, "that forlorn phrase," in William Meredith's words. And his role as an innovator relates directly to his role as a teacher and scholar. For better or for worse, Berryman is an academic--that once-unpleasant label that generated such a fuss in the late fifties. Most of his life has been spent in colleges and universities. Born in Oklahoma, in 1914 he was educated at Columbia, Clare College and Cambridge; since then he has taught "just about everywhere but the South," including Grinnell, Wayne (Detroit), Princeton, Minnesota--where...
...Among the chief boards are the National Science Foundation (Hesburgh, Clement, M.I.T.'s Julius Stratton, Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride), the Rockefeller Foundation (Hesburgh, Goheen, Caltech's Lee DuBridge), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Perkins, Goheen, Stratton, Hesburgh, McBride, Minnesota's O. Meredith Wilson, North Carolina's William Friday, U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, Illinois' David Henry), the Institute of International Education (Wilson, Hesburgh, Murphy, McBride, Henry...
...Meredith Wilson, 56, Minnesota. A warm man with a dry humor and an analytic mind, he is an ideal moderator who manages to shape meetings toward his own preconceived intent, yet with a democratic touch. He is chairman of the Institute of International Education and National Advisory Council on Education of Disadvantaged Children. He is a former history professor who was a Ford Foundation official and president of the University of Oregon before going to Minnesota...
...play Robin, Dozier chose Burt Ward, a 20-year-old water skier whose reading of "Gleeps!" will not be matched in this age, moving one acting teacher to call Batman "a film anthology of things not to do." For arch-villains in subsequent episodes, Dozier has signed Burgess Meredith (The Penguin) and Cesar Romero (The Joker). The talk of the trade is that Frank Sinatra is furious: he wanted to play The Joker...
...Snoop's doghouse burn down. Now the idea doesn't seem so comic-nor does Schulz's nickname, "Sparky." Last week his one-story studio in Sebastqpol, Calif., caught fire and burned to the ground. There were almost some roasted Peanuts, but Schulz's daughter Meredith raced in and saved a batch of strips he'd drawn for February. Snoopy is-whew!-safe...