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...doing an altar of St Thérèse de Lisieux, my favorite saint, and I needed a model for the angel in one of the panels. Jack, with his curly hair and his youthful serenity of expression, was literally God-sent." So said Sculptress Irena Wiley of John F. Kennedy, who at the time in 1939 was spending a week or so of his summer vacation from Harvard visiting the sculptress and her diplomat husband in Europe. Carving the wooden altarpiece for a Belgian church, Mrs. Wiley portrayed the future U.S. President as a guardian angel hovering over...
...start with a healthy heart," said Boston's Dr. Paul Dudley White, 76, elder statesman of cardiology, "physical labor or exercise apparently helps to keep it healthy. There is no evidence, that mental work per se causes heart disease, although in excess it may lead to neglect of proper health habits, and thus perhaps favor the early development of heart disease. The best antidote for the harmful effects of intensive mental work is vigorous physical labor or exercise...
Chosen after a five-month search by Lone Star's board, Wilson is chipped from the same block as Gene Germany. Born in the Louisiana oilfields, Wilson got a law degree at Tulane. taught oil and gas law there until he was lured away to run a se ries of small oil companies. An avid collector of hunting rifles, Wilson relaxes by taking potshots at Texas' innumerable jack rabbits. "He must shoot thousands of them every year," says a friend. "He does it to keep his eye in practice...
...anti-jockism at Harvard bad as anti-intellectualism; type of personality under exists per se at Harvard, and no reason why a varsity dispel the erroneous triad types by joining a final club A's. To those who ask " hell are you doing down at muddy field with a bunch animals when you could be your knowledge by reading ?" the athlete can reply " a college experience" much validity and pride as a of the CRIMSON, Glee Club, Council, or any group...
...course, there is nothing evil about graduate study per se; certainly, for some people it is a meaningful addition to undergraduate education. But when 90 per cent of the Senior Class entertains thoughts of attending graduate school, something is terribly, disturbingly wrong. Either the College is admitting too many academically oriented students, or it is encouraging scholarly pretensions in too many men, or it is doing both of these things and most probably making other errors as well. If Harvard cannot instill in its students any values other than academic ones, it fails as a liberal arts college...