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Missing Links. Far from justifying the grand inclusiveness of the book's title, this sampling has been denounced by British Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer as "so poor that the only reliable figures are those for [white U.S.] college graduates in six [northeastern and Midwestern] states." Kinsey himself admits that he has not yet assembled adequate data on men over 50, on infants and very young children, on the "rural population," on "a number of the religious groups," on factory workers, and on Negroes...
Valpey is no fool. He won a national scholarship once. He knows the switch to Cambridge means forsaking a land of plenty for a relative land of famine. He knows he won't find the big, corn-fed beeves here he found roaming Midwestern gridirons...
TIME'S Jan. 26 story on the Wisconsin-Iowa basketball game at Madison . . . leads many of us rabid, wild-eyed midwestern basketball fans to wonder . . . whether TIME'S snappy style necessitates a mutilation of the facts...
Though chapter houses were crowded, many married brothers now lived in Quonsets, trailers and boardinghouses off campus; they had little time for the old casual touch-football games on the lawn, or the beer & bull sessions. Even at Western and Midwestern campuses, where fraternities usually had been taken more seriously than in the East, actives were not as active any more. Were fraternities themselves on the decline? According to a survey of 17 big-time college campuses last week, the answer was decidedly...
Shrewd Boss Jake Arvey had wanted to line up a more seasoned vote-getting combination. But Senator Scott Lucas had refused to run for the governorship; as the Senate's only Midwestern Democrat, he thought he could do his party more good in Washington. Chicago's able Businessman-Mayor Martin Kennelly had also turned down the governorship post...