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...comes Mr. Jordan. With seventeen years in the Little Three behind him, and two more in the Ivy League, Jordan seems to feel that paid performers, large-scale recruiting, bribery, cheating, falsification of grades, and special courses for athletes aren't enough. "The evils have been overestimated," he says. "Football is big business, and I'm in favor of making it bigger...
...would be a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. That arrangement would allow him to study the Eisenhower question thoroughly, and still leave time to lead a liberal Republican movement against Ohio's Bob Taft. Last week Governor Warren was getting ready to tear up the schedule. Seventeen other key Republicans in the state, including Senators Knowland and Nixon, urged him to announce that he will run. Their private reasoning: something has to be done quickly to stop the Taft bandwagon in California...
...Princeton grads made names for themselves in the lighter fields as well. Phillip Freneau 1771, the poet of the Revolution, called Princeton home for four years. Following in his literary pen splatterings have been Booth Tarkington '93, creator of Penrod and author of "Seventeen," an adaptation of which is now on Broadway, Henry van Dyke '73, Eugene O'Neill '10, father of modern American drama, James Ramsey Ullman '29, author of "The White Tower," and F. Scott Fitzgerald...
When Louis J. Zerbee is not turning out garden and rumpus-room furniture in his Bellefontaine, Ohio factory, his thoughts rise far above such earthly pursuits. They soar to the stars. Seventeen years ago he went off on a vacation to his summer home at Indian Lake, where there was no telephone, and studied astronomy for relaxation. He didn't enjoy all the figuring, and when he lay on his back in the yard at night, and watched the stars sailing over Ohio, he felt sorry for seagoing navigators who must plot their ships' position by means...
Life in Nahant, Mass., 15-year-old Roberta McCauley remarked, was dull. Seventeen-year-old Eileen Jeffreys agreed. Sixteen-year-old Marilyn Curry added: "The kids at school are terrible." The three girls, who were baby-sitting at the time in the home of a Dr. Albert Covner, decided to run away to New York...