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...pregnancies, hours of agonizing births, years of self-sacrificing and rearing, they are reluctant to turn over their offspring for lessons in proper human behavior to sadistic bullies who criticize parental upbringing in an attempt to justify their own unlawful and undignified antics. I'm no softie; the rod is well worn around our house...
...confirm reports that he is going to "buy Harvard College for my boys." Rev. Buttrick will urge President Pusey to go gold hunting in South America to strengthen Harvard's financial position. Rev. Buttrick will offer to accompany the President and allow him to use his new gold-divining rod. Ex-Dean Watson will offer to find gold with his IBM machines. "Damn, but those machines are awfully smart. Awfully" he will...
...beat to death another boy because of some campus newspaper articles he had written.* Director John Frankenheimer (Williams. '51), a gangly TV veteran of 27, was disappointed from the start with George Bellak's TV adaptation of his original play. So Frankenheimer called in TV Author Rod (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Serling to doctor the script. With accomplished Actor Ben Gazzara to play the role, Frankenheimer wanted to expand the part of Stanley, the dead boy's roommate, who makes an effort to stop the fatal roughhouse, then suffers with a conscience-driven urge to tell...
...probably won't. That honor is reserved for Princeton's Rod Zwirner; but the Tigers offer little else...
Ever since he revved up Hot Rod (on a low-octane stake of $400), onetime Pressagent Petersen has also striven earnestly to eliminate hell-for-leather jalopy jockeys as a highway hazard, helped start up the National Hot Rod Association (headed by Hot Rod's Editor WalIy Parks) to herd drivers into some 700 "drag strips" that are now specifically set aside around the country for 130-m.p.h. hot-rod competitions (TIME, Aug. 2 9) 1955). Last week Publisher Petersen sat down with his editors to plan an even more ambitious safety project. In the belief that highway deaths...