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...heaven is kindness and charity, "Minnie" Smith probably looked down and smiled when she saw TIME'S Nov. 17 cover of her son, American Airlines' C. R. Smith. Not only did Minnie [see cut] support and educate a family of seven children, but she also, during the latter part of her life, helped scores of struggling students (including myself) at the University of Texas...
Former WAVE officers who were indoctrinated at Smith during World War II will be impressed with the new Smith dormitory [Nov. 17]. How about the bathroom facilities? In my WAVE group, 13 women used one tub, one toilet, and one basin, with the result that a knock on the door once brought this shouted response from within: "There's one in, one on, and one at-stay...
What better can be said of a writer than that he has a lively style? Even some occasional malice can be forgiven, but in the review of Huxley's new book [Brave New World Revisited-Nov. 17] your reviewer seems to have gone beyond the malicious to the vicious. And I wonder what age would he suggest as appropriate to stop talking about the problem of overpopulation...
With the state's "massive resistance" laws ready to topple in the courts and with powerful Virginia editors looking for a way out (TIME, Nov. 24), able Lawyer Almond came close to admitting that Virginia might have to come up with a local-option school plan. Only two days before his news conference, Almond and Virginia had got a vaccination against the infection they feared. In Norfolk (pop. 314,600), where 10,000 pupils are still locked out, voters decided 12,333 to 8,781 against petitioning Almond to return their schools to local control, thus let them open...
...charts. The moon-faced young man who used to pull no more than $750 a week on the road now draws as much as $1,000 for a single performance. He will really crash the big time on the Perry Como TV show this week (NBC, Nov. 29, 8 p.m. E.S.T.). From the sales of Make Believe alone, he expects to clear...