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Pittman went off to nearby Millsaps College and became a deejay there; offered better radio jobs in Milwaukee, Detroit and then Pittsburgh, he kept transferring to new schools. Despite a strong interest in sociology, he never did finish college, but at 20 he became the program director of NBC's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Recognizing her skills as well as her birthday, her home state of Mississippi declared a Eudora Welty Day. In Jackson, the capital and her home town, Millsaps College tossed a three-day "Southern literary festival" honoring the occasion. The affair drew pipe-smoking academics, fellow successful novelists and short-story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mississippi: A Diamond Jubilee | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

The top "smaller comprehensive universities" were Colby-Sawyer, Millsaps College in Mississippi, and Evergreen State College in Washington. Question: What are the top five undergraduate universities in the nation? Stanford 48.8% Harvard 47.6% Yale 37.8% Princeton 28.0% University of Calif.-Berkeley 24.4% Source: U.S. News and World Report, November 28...

Author: By Katherine M. Peterson, | Title: Stanford Outranks Harvard in Survey | 11/29/1983 | See Source »

The figures of mere growth are somewhat misleading, since they are based largely on the proliferation of M.B.A. programs at institutions like Los Angeles' Woodbury University or the Millsaps College School of Business in Jackson, Miss. Many schools have also started abbreviated M.B.A. programs for experienced executives. Already there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Money Chase | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

After the war, he enrolled at Mississippi's Millsaps College and was almost bounced when officials discovered he was an eighth-grade dropout. He later went on to earn a master's from Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Put Our People Back to Work' | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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