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Southmayd succeeds Dick Diehl, a tackle, as football captain. His home town is Newton, Mass., where he made Boston area All-Scholastic at Newton High. A fine student, Southmayd plans a career in medicine...
...million-a-year Maytag Co., U.S. producer of laundry machines, the founder's forthright flying and skindiving grandson, who at 29 inherited a feudal Midwestern firm, modernized and expanded it tenfold by profit-sharing management and honest craftsmanship that shunned built-in obsolescence; of cancer; in Newton, Iowa...
...depend so much on ravens. People have begun to buy his work, for when, after an eight-year hiatus, he finally consented to a one-man show in London two years ago, British critics raved about his youthful ability to turn, as the Manchester Guardian's Eric Newton put it, "hard bronze into lambent flame." Last week the U.S. got its first good look in years at Sculptor Underwood's work in an appealing exhibition at Manhattan's Acquavella Galleries...
Editor Fired. With eyebrows raised all over Colorado, and a TV-radio editorial reproof by Denver's KLZ ringing in his ears, President Newton finally got to work a fortnight ago and fired Althen from his job as editor. Up sprang student picket lines, with Mitcham bearing a derisive sign: "Senator, I will not silence them!" But the faculty senate, meeting behind doors under police guard, voted confidence in Newton...
Last week harried President Newton told a jampacked student audience why Editor Althen had to go (although both Althen and Mitcham remain enrolled as students). Academic freedom needs protection not only from those who do not believe in it, said Newton, but also from those who misuse it "to justify irresponsible actions which endanger the university." In a straw vote next day by 2,963 students, Newton's firing of Editor Althen was upheld by more than...