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...Spalding and a few other select Hollywood, the chance to meet Lynda Bird Johnson came last weekend when handsome Screen Actor Hamilton brought his girl home to meet Mother. The occasion was Lynda's 22nd birthday. Assembled in the $200,000 house, once owned by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, were 125 show business celebrities, among them Greer Garson, Natalie Wood, Elke Sommer, Bobby Darin, Jill St. John and Eddie Fisher, who obliged by singing Linda ("When I go to sleep...
Gunness praised the act for allowing colleges to select the students who should receive aid. "After all, we are the ones who should know whom to pick," he said...
...Select Bibliography of History--Which may now be purchased in the history library on the top floor of Widener--can provide an escape from many of the academic agonies of the junior and senior years. Honors concentrators in history who face the task of thrashing through three or four floors of the Widener stacks looking for a thesis topic now have a concise and authoritative bibliography for introductory knowledge of the fundamental problems and the major scholarship in forty-two fields of history. It will enable students to survey intelligently an area of potential interest as economically as possible...
Advanced standing students now carry out this three-year program. Many of them remain a fourth year to do independent study. The junior thesis-writer would also have this opportunity senior year. And just as advanced standing is limited to a select group of students, only a certain number of exceptional freshman should be allowed to opt for an early thesis. A voluntary test, posibly a long research paper, could be given at the end of the freshman year to determine which of the applicants were qualified for the accelerated program...
...United Stated has a President marshalled the opinions of so many people in private discussion, or been so tolerant of behind-closed-doors dissent. However, few have ever been so sensitive to public criticism, especially that originating in the press. Relations between LBJ and all but a select few of the nation's columnists (William S. White, his campaign biographer and Max Freedman, whose words seem to parody those of the President, are the two main exceptions) are chilly at best...