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There were cheers from thousands, and Orangemen toasted their Queen's coming in gallons of frothy stout, the national elixir. The Queen and husband Philip spent the night at Government House, watched the traditional lambeg drummers lambasting their three-foot drums with ferocious, stout-filled glee. Eventually, they gave Elizabeth a headache, and Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, popped his head outside to ask them to desist. They did, but said goodnight by playfully clouting him with their caps...
...Stylish Stout. In San Gabriel, Calif., police wondered why 230-lb. Alberta Patoux always seemed either fatter or thinner, arrested her inside a store, found 13 cartons of stolen cigarettes stowed in her tent-size bloomers...
...twelve hours, the regents of the University of Nevada pondered the case of Biologist Frank Richardson-the man who had criticized President Minard Stout for lowering admission standards (TIME, June 15). Was Richardson just a "buttinsky" as Stout had charged? Or did he have the right to express his views on educational philosophy and to criticize administrative policy? Last week the regents made up their minds: Richardson, having "demonstrated insubordination," must...
...days after that, Stout summoned Richardson to his office, told him that he had been hired to teach biology, that he should "mind your own business and stop being a buttinsky all over the campus." Richardson, still convinced that it is a professor's business to be concerned about educational philosophy, went right on discussing the matter with his colleagues. To President Stout, such talk amounted to a "vicious conspiracy." Last March he ordered Richardson and four other like-minded professors to show cause before the board of regents why they should not be fired...
...Stout eventually changed his mind about the other four, but his attempt to dismiss Richardson raised an academic hue & cry far beyond Nevada's borders. At the University of Illinois, dozens of facultymen'signed a petition of protest; other petitions went the rounds at Stanford and the University of California. Meanwhile, four Reno lawyers offered to fight Richardson's case without fee. This week the case was up before the board of regents...