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...Southern states that have avoided even token compliance with the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision, none has thundered "never" louder than Mississippi. Last week Mississippi's "never" turned to "soon." The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Negro James Meredith, 29, admitted to the University of Mississippi...
...Titanic crash brought the only other major change to Harvard that year, with the bequest of the Widener collection which included first editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Johnson, Goldsmith, Gray, Keats, and Shelley. There were also volumes of the modern authors: Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Stevenson, which in many instances were personally associated with their authors. Some copies contained presentation inscriptions; others, manuscript corrections and annotations...
...Journal's new editor, 33-year-old Curtiss M. Anderson, was hand-picked by the Goulds as their successor. A graduate of the University of Minnesota ('51), he spent nine years with Des Moines's Meredith Publishing Co. (Better Homes and Gardens). He joined the Journal in 1960 as an associate editor, moved up to managing editor last year. Well aware that he will have his hands full regaining the magazine's lost diadem, crew-cut Curt Anderson (he is now letting his hair grow out) is keeping his own counsel. "The Journal's basic...
...dashing way with a phrase-almost too dashing; sometimes the reader can't see the poem for the words. W. D. Snodgrass, 35, a less spectacular writer, is a clear, competent, solidly individual poet who may well become one of America's best. William Meredith, 42, is a master of compression who has written half a dozen superb short poems. Adrienne Cecile Rich, 32, the most accomplished young poet of her sex, has a feminine charm that is coupled with a feminine shrewdness...
...education seminar, led by Meredith Price, assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Education, will include members of the Harvard Undergraduate Teacher program. Mrs. Carol C. Smith will conduct a seminar in international Legal Problems for a small group of students...