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...pickings are fat because the U.S. has no national control of education, and sparse state control (only 18 states and the District of Columbia regulate degree giving). In one of 13 states that tolerate "nonprofit" colleges without a charter or license, the typical mill's campus is a small-town post-office box. For $150 and up, the mill sells such degrees as Doctor of Divinity in Metaphysics, Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, "Master Herbalsits" (sic). The signatories are such lustrous personages as "Archbishop John...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Small-town tattletales embarrass the heroine's mother into insisting that Rachel's Summer be spent at home. But the vacation is ruined when Rachel discovers that Momma isn't so sure of her innocence. From a story by Charles (Lost Weekend) Jackson. With Martha Scott and Patty McCormack...
Like Saroyan's Armenians, Anderson's people are one of the few lingering groups of exotics still maintaining cultural autonomy before the melting pot gets them -the small-town Negroes of the South. Anderson himself was a Southern Negro, but not until he was 14. Born in Panama of Jamaican parents, he went to school in Kingston before going to Oxford, N.C., where he lived until he was drafted into the Army in 1943. A master sergeant at war's end, Anderson took the G.I. bill through North Carolina College ('47), went on to study...
...have relaxed, the sick (cardiac disease), suspicious President picked a new fight with a more serious opponent: the Roman Catholic Church. On Duvalier's orders, his tough cops grabbed up Father Etienne Grienenberger. rector of St. Martial, Haiti's largest Catholic college, and Father Joseph Marrec, a small-town pastor, and hustled them roughly onto a New York-bound plane, expelling them from Haiti for "reasons of internal security...
...title role (originally created by Monty Woolley and later played on tour by Woollcott himself) of the man who came to dinner at an Ohio small-town home, had a bad fall, and is enwheelchaired there for a few weeks, this production enjoys the services of Earle Edgerton, a veteran of dozens of local shows. He brings his own excellences to the outrageous personage with the slashing wit and excoriating tongue; saying and doing such things as the rest of us dare only do in our minds, he cantankers his way through the role like a bull-slinger...