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Post Anne Sexton will open the 1963 Lowell House readings with selections from her verse at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lowell Junior Common Room...
...Miss Sexton, a member of the Radcliffe Institute, has contributed to The New Yorker, Harper's, Accent, Hudson Review, and Partisan Review and has published two volumes of her verse, To Bedlam and Part Way Bask and All My Pretty Ones. In 1959 she held the Robert Frost Fellowship at the Broad Loaf Writers' Conference...
...most important single issue is summed up in James B. Conant's Slums and Suburbs (McGraw-Hill; $3.95), a sobering report on the growing gap between have and have-not schools, with special emphasis on the "social dynamite" building up in big-city Negro ghettos. Sociologist Patricia C. Sexton's Education and Income (Viking; $6), focusing specifically on the same problem in Detroit, argues persuasively that underprivilege equals undereducation and that low IQ often, and unfairly, reflects low income...
...Lavely-to-Sexton pass added two points to give the Bulldogs the game by a margin...
...turned off the croft. The terrier followed his master to town, sat by his side while he died in a dismal padding ken, followed his coffin to Greyfriars kirkyard, plumped himself down on the old man's grave to spend the night. "No dogs allowed!" the sour old sexton (Donald Crisp) bellowed, and booted him out the gate. But that night and every night Bobby sneaked back in to sleep on his master's grave, soon became such an object of civic admiration in Edinburgh that the Lord High Commissioner awarded him the Freedom of the City...