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Married. Eleanor Steber, 41, clarion-voiced dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera; and Major Gordon Guelberth Andrews, 39, faculty member at the U.S. Army's Information School, Fort Slocum, N.Y.; both for the second time; at Fort Slocum...
...program is divided into two parts: scholarships and Slocum Aid Funds. The scholarships are administered in the same way as those given by the College, being only for students from New York who maintain dean's list grades. The Slocum Aid Funds were established, however, "to provide financial assistance for freshmen and upperclassmen regardless of where they lived, who were capable of obtaining satisfactory grades but whose interests and activities at Harvard were not confined to matters academic...
...Occasionally in the past graduates have been asked to contribute to Graduate Issues. One of these contained such gems as "Sitting A Little Apprehensively on the World" by Bernard De Voto, "All, All Wasted" by Conrad Aiken, and "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," by Thomas W. Slocum...
...YOUNG LOVERS, by Julian Halevy (313 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3.50), plants the seed of love on the sidewalks of Manhattan and watches it sprout amid the chewing-gum wrappers like a blade of grass between slabs of city concrete. Eddie Slocum and Pamela Oldenburg are waiflike 20-year-olds who meet in the subway. Eddie is a college student who shares a Greenwich Village walk-up with a couple of buddies and goes through a local education factory as mechanically as if he were an IBM card being punched for semester credits. Nicknamed "The Groper," Eddie has a case...
Other reporters-and their bosses-joined the protest against the brownout, centering their fire on the restrictions on news imposed by Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson under his new information policy (TIME, April 18). At the annual Manhattan meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association (see above) Richard W. Slocum, Association president and executive vice president of the Philadelphia Bulletin, called upon Wilson to change his ways. Said Slocum: "We shall hope that our well-intentioned Secretary of Defense will quickly see the error in his recent resort to censorship...