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...acquired this by using his name, his robust good looks (6 ft. 1 in.. 200 lbs.) and pleasant, though somewhat plodding, platform style to win election to the Ohio legislature in 1954. There his interests were broad (he served on the finance, industry, labor, judiciary, welfare and insurance committees), and he sponsored nearly 40 successful bills. They ranged from securing higher interest on public funds deposited in banks to giving epileptics the right to get drivers' licenses. He was re-elected three times and became majority leader of the house. Says he of himself and his father...
...painting field, there is nothing truly outstanding although Philip Kerr's (Leverett) "Sky"--a thickly painted canvas showing bent refraction rings in bright red hues around a light source--is most pleasant indeed...
McCord has become well known for his revolutionary approach to alumni fund raising. As a man of letters, McCord introduced to the inevitable pleas for money a pleasant style and a literary touch. Brooks Atkinson '17 once said in a New York Times column about McCord's informal essays, "on't is wonderful that brochures written on such a high level of style, thought, and erudition, also delight the givers...
...Paul's Macalester College is a Presbyterian-linked liberal arts school with 1,700 students, mostly from Minnesota. It has some pleasant distinctions: a 22-member bagpipe band in Macalester clan kilts, a 40-acre campus along swank Summit Avenue, where Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up. But none of this explains the school's greatest claim to fame. In number of National Merit Scholars, a status symbol among U.S. colleges, little Macalester is year after year among the top ten campuses in the nation...
Records by collegiate groups are usually less than satisfying. But despite the inevitable rough edges, technical problems, and occasional intonation troubles, The Collegiate Sound and More Collegiate Sound, two records which recently reached the Square, present rather pleasant collections of nostalgia and parody...