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...teach Christian Ethics at its summer school. Born 34 years ago in Columbus, Ga. (his parents both teach in Griffin, Ga.'s public schools), Mr. Kelsey hung up one of Andover-Newton's highest student scholastic records a decade ago, is now finishing a year's Rosenwald Fellowship at Yale's Divinity School. In the fall he will go back to teaching philosophy and religion at Atlanta's Morehouse College...
...Falls Camp at Clayton, staffed it with progressive Bennington College counselors. With Paula Snelling, critic and riding instructor, she started a literary magazine, Pseudopodia. In demand as a speaker, gifted with a whispery, well modulated voice, she began work with Southern church groups, also interviewed prospects for the Julius Rosenwald Fund,* changed her literary magazine to the politically conscious South Today, and began to put into practice the new credo of Southern racial reform...
Last week University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins announced that Sears had given the Britannica to his university. The transfer itself was logical enough: members of Chicago's philanthropic Rosenwald family, identified with Sears, Roebuck for half a century, have long been generous supporters of the university. Onetime Chairman Julius Rosenwald was responsible for Sears's acquisition of the Britannica in 1920, when it was in such bad financial straits that its priceless plates were about to be sold at auction. What made the deal especially interesting was what Bob Hutchins did not tell about...
Child prodigies often grow up distorted. But Sam Reshevsky was fortunate enough to come to the attention of the late great Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, who made him give up exhibition chess at the age of 13 so he could get an education. By the time he was 23 and resumed playing, Reshevsky proved that his early talent had been no flash in the pawn. At the 1935 International Masters Tournament at Margate, England, little Sam copped first prize-outwitting among others, onetime World's Champion José Capablanca...
...policewoman in the tough Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. Tall, heavy and gusty, Charlotte Carr calls herself "a fat Irishwoman" and is a female counterpart of John L. Lewis-more a labor leader than a social worker. Last week she had been offered a job with the Rosenwald Fund (race relations...