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...CHARLES E. MERRIAM...
...Reader Merriam (wife of University of Chicago's famed political science professor), TIME'S thanks for the inside story. She is not to be confused with her fellow juror, Mrs. Katherine Merrifield, wife of a Northwestern professor, whose change of mind caused a mistrial...
When quaint Dexter Merriam Keezer became president of little Reed College (Portland, Ore.) five years ago, he ventured a purely academic joke: that Reed might hire a good football team and special professors to keep the players eligible. Early next morning players, coaches and professors began to arrive in droves to offer their services. Dazed President Keezer sent them away, decided not to trifle again with so serious a subject. Last week football came back to plague Mr. Keezer again...
...administrative fields where the Legislature could not hamstring him, Culbert Olson did what he promised, started a cleanup of workmen's compensation administration, building & loan scandals, other dung-heaps in the backyard which he had inherited from old Frank Merriam. To the $30-Every-Thursday Ham-&-Eggers who helped install him, he promised a special election to give their pension plan a chance this fall, talked of tacking to it a proposal to recall the legislators who wrecked his program. Culbert Olson hoped to be to California what he thinks...
...week's end the jury found Mark Megladdery guilty of soliciting and receiving a bribe, let him in for a maximum 19 years in prison. This week he goes to trial for passing bad checks, attempted grand theft. Frank Finley Merriam's chances to be the next Republican Senator from California were quoted at worse than...