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Three editors of the Northwestern University undergraduate daily have refused to obey an administration order ousting them from their positions, while Cornell has suspended several students who commandeered the campus radio station last week...
...professor of English at Northwestern University, Bergen Evans brings to TV a nicely turned academic wit and an impressive fund of miscellaneous information ("When Queen Victoria became a Knight of the Garter, she had it put on her arm, not her leg"). He first showed his debunking talents in his 1946 book, The Natural History of Nonsense, which shied irreverent rocks at some of mankind's most venerable myths. Before Down You Go, Evans made trial TV runs on several local shows, recalls that one of them was so bad it was watched "only by members of my immediate...
Last week John Gregg's fondest wish was fulfilled. Manhattan's McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., which bought the school in 1948, announced that it was turning it over to Northwestern University. There, bearing its founder's name, it will continue to operate, just as John Gregg always wanted...
...years Pastor Howard D. McCalmont's First United Presbyterian congregation has fought a court battle to build a church in a cozy residential district in northwestern Detroit. They were opposed, in the courts, by 15 of the area's 236 residents, who cited residential zoning laws in their support. Last week the Michigan state supreme court ruled that the church could not be built. A 6-1 decision agreed with the complainants' claim that the church would "destroy the residential character of their homes, attract large crowds, create parking problems, noises and interfere with their privacy...
...Eight northwestern colleges are sifting candidates for the five new Donald Kirk David Fellowships in Business Administration, Associate Dean Teele announced yesterday...