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...Hollywood Haberdasher Harvey Othel Knox, 45, picking a college for stepson Ronnie was simply a business transaction-like selling a $250 suit. A handsome 180-pounder, long-legged (6 ft. 1 in.) Ronnie was one of the hottest high-school backfield stars ever to hit Southern California. Some 27 colleges were bidding for his services. For Harvey, the only question was: Which institution of higher education would be willing to pay the right price...
Mortifying & Humiliating. In the course of two centuries, the city itself has not always returned the compliment of such enthusiasm. It was true that George Washington let his stepson go there, and that Alexander Hamilton was an alumnus. But by 1814 the trustees were branding Columbia as "a spectacle, mortifying to its friends, humiliating to the city." In the 18503, Trustee Samuel Ruggles ruefully pointed out that of two universities that George III chartered, Göttingen had 89 professors and 1,545 students, while Columbia still languished with six professors and 140 students...
...Albany, an aging invalid whose home, an abandoned coffee shop shaped like a huge coffeepot, stands on the barren dunes of the California coast. In two days' action, well padded with flashbacks, Mrs. Albany racks up a high score in pure malevolence. Among other things, she drives her stepson to alcoholism and her stepdaughter to an early death. She also pushes her only daughter across the brink into insanity. Her husband, a doctor, leaves home and dies in the shack of a friendly doxy...
...Cretan Woman, a short verse play based on Euripides' Hippolytus, Jeffers has adapted a situation made to his order. The wife of Theseus falls in love with Hippolytus, her homosexual stepson...
...Best Sir: Here's one reader who jumped for joy when he read of the English education of Chicago Newsman Ernie Hill's stepson Jona than prise to [TIME, learn that Nov. 2]. "six of It the comes as best"- no six sur wal lops with the headmaster's cane - work wonders with a boy too long exposed to progressive education in U.S. schools...