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Things began on Friday afternoon, when a friend in Harvard's administrative hierarchy slipped him the word that he didn't get into Eliot House. For Mansley--the Montebank clan's silver-spoon-fed youngest generation (St. Mark's and BUtterfield 8)--it was a deliberate slur on his urbanity. Shaken and embittered and haunted by the persistent spectre of anachronism, Mansley did something a Montebank would never do; he went to the ISA Fair...
...William Vincent Griffin, 72, longtime vice chairman of the board of directors of TIME, INC.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After Yale, where he took an LL.B. ('08) and a B.A. ('12), wise, devoted Bill Griffin started a business career without any sign of a silver spoon, became a trustee of the estate of James C. Brady and chairman of the board of the Brady Security & Realty Corp.; invested in Chrysler in the '205, was soon a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan, Continental Oil Co. and more than a dozen...
...Rock 'n' roll is part of this generation," said the little man. "We were born with an atom bomb instead of a spoon in our mouth. And our whole life is the sustained debauchery of a spitting...
...standout place for a retardation could well be in the $5-billion-a-year program for subsidizing and spoon-feeding U.S. agriculture. But the Administration, full knowing that the current price-support program is a scandalous failure (TIME, Aug. 19), is afraid to attack revision in a congressional election year...
...piled finally into a decrepit hack. We fell into O'Neill's room some time about five. I had just purchased that day a copy of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. When the dawn broke, I was sitting on a trunk, Elkins sprawled across the bed, O'Neill reading in his powerful, melancholy bass, poem after poem from that disturbing collection." --John V.A. Weaver, a classmate...