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RIDE HOME TOMORROW (343 pp.)-Evan John-Putnam...
...dark and moonless night last July, a 31-year-old Long Island housewife named Mrs. Andrea Gehr found herself engaged in a furtive and embarrassing job of housebreaking. She got quietly out of an automobile which had brought her up a woodsy Putnam County lane and left the car in the shadows. Then, flanked by three private detectives, she climbed a fence and sneaked through the gloom toward an unlighted summer cottage...
Every year, with ceremonial flourishes, U.S. colleges and universities hand out some 1,500 honorary degrees. Who gets them? To answer the question, Teachers Stephen E. Epler and P. H. Putnam of Portland, Ore. examined the records of seven major campuses,* last week published their findings in School and Society...
...four years after World War II, Epler and Putnam found, the seven schools gave out 244 honorary degreesa 74% increase over their average yearly rate in the 1920s. Nearly half the degrees went to scholars, scientists and educators. Businessmen, who seldom if ever got degrees before the Civil War, now get a modest 8%. Generals and admirals (10%) have had the biggest postwar boom. Clergymen are slipping; a century ago they made up 45% of the honoris causa list, after World...
...president, N.A.M. elected high-domed William H. Ruffin, 51, president of Durham, N.C.'s Erwin Mills, Inc. He succeeds Claude A. Putnam, president of the Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H. President Ruffin was born & bred in Louisburg, N.C., went to work 29 years ago at a weaving machine in Erwin's textile mills and climbed steadily until he became president in 1948. Ruffin, who describes himself as a "moderately large manufacturer," employs 7,400 in his mills, is the first N.A.M. president to come from the soft-goods industry...