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...special English course for Maxey boys. Arguing that "no hardbound text was ever thrust into a boy's hip pocket," he has thrown out such books, replaced them with paperbacks ranging from James Bond to Erich Fromm. When he first arrives at the school, each boy can select two from drugstore-type racks, keep them or exchange them with other boys -and no one tries to keep track of them. Fader also advises constant practice in writing. Boys are encouraged to keep a daily journal, which is never corrected for grammar or spelling, only checked...
...James A. Pike, Bishop of California, for his untiring efforts to thaw out God's frozen people. The man I should most dislike to see nominated is the man whom everyone will select and who will be chosen by you, L.B.J...
...member of Harvard's select Society of Fellows, a group of graduate students who were allowed to pursue their studies without worrying about Ph.D. requirements,* Schlesinger plunged into research on the Age of Jackson. In 1940, he also plunged into marriage. His bride was Marian Cannon, daughter of a Harvard Medical School physiologist and now a painter of children's portraits. In 1941 his studies yielded a series of lectures on Jacksonian democracy that became the nucleus for the book that later made him famous...
...first-year law student, will represent the United States. Both have placed high in recent years in he National Debate Tournament at West Point. A third person, associated with the school, but not a student, will round out the team. The Harvard Debate Council conducted contests Wednesday night to select the student team members...
...Martin Luther King calls for a new U.S. law making it a federal crime to intimidate or murder any person "in pursuit of constitutional rights." He seeks Negro employment "on every level of law enforcement agencies." To "abolish lynch law from Dixie juries," he thinks federal officials ought "to select and constitute jury panels in state as well as federal cases...