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...baby," says President Kingman Brewster when he appoints a new master to one of Yale's twelve residential colleges. "You take the college where you want it to go." Last week, breaking the tradition of choosing masters from the academic world, Brewster named John Hersey, 50, master of Pierson College, in an experiment to find where a nonacademic novelist and journalist will want a college...
Porter, who will retire as master of Pierson when Hersey takes over in July. Brewster admitted that it was "seemingly" a departure from Yale tradition, yet denied any conscious effort to break the pattern: "I was just looking for the man who could do the best...
Tientsin to Adano. To Pierson's neo-Georgian-style quadrangle, Hersey will bring a rich and varied experience. Born in Tientsin, the son of Christian missionaries, he spoke Chinese fluently before he knew a word of English. When he was ten, his family returned to the U.S., and Hersey attended Hotchkiss and Yale ('36). After a postgraduate year at Cambridge, he came back to be secretary to Sinclair Lewis, then war correspondent for TIME and LIFE. His third book, A Bell for Adano, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 and was followed by the celebrated account...
Died. Sir Pierson Dixon, 60, donnish, unflappable diplomat, spare-time belle-lettrist and novelist, who as Britain's permanent representative to the U.N. (1954-60) coolly defended his nation in the furious 1956 debate over Suez, thereafter served as Ambassador to France (until February), playing a major role in the abortive negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market, after which he remarked sadly that reasoning with De Gaulle was "like trying to get through to a man wearing a suit of armor"; at Egham, Surrey...
Howie Henjyoji, leading off-for the Crimson at 123 pounds, was reversed by the Tigers' Greg McBride in the last minute of the third period and lost a 5-4 decision. Brian Baker of Princeton then stopped Bing Sung 5-0 at 130. Tiger Captain Sam Pierson inflated Princeton's lead to 9-0 by surviving Tom Gilmore's punishing ride in the second period of their 137-pound match and winning a 2-0 decision...