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...After a wartime hitch in the Navy, merely making money was not enough for Stevens, and he drifted into Detroit's Drama Guild. Before long, he bought his way onto Broadway, joined the board of ANTA, then became a member of the Playwrights' Company. He impressed such topflight playwrights as Maxwell Anderson and Robert Sherwood as a wonderful source of cash. Stevens now runs syndicates of theatrical angels and archangels, one of which put together $540,000 for this year's ventures alone (his own contribution: $30,000). Stevens is also a director of a company that...
...back to school because" contest conducted by radio station WIND, Chicago [TIME, Sept. 8], is heartening and timely. Ellen Goldsmith of suburban Glencoe, Ill. was the $100 grand prize winner. She is 14 and a high school freshman. Ellen is no egghead: she is active in scouting, athletic, a topflight camper, loves to jitterbug and is studying piano. I am a proud grandpa...
...first formal race since a 1956 heart attack, Investment Banker Shields worked up to part-time captain by stages-first by skippering her trial horse Nereus, then advising from Columbia's tender, finally plotting strategy from the boat's cockpit for regular Helmsman Briggs Cunningham, topflight yachtsman, longtime sports-car designer and racer (TIME cover, April...
...special guest was Milton Stover Eisenhower, 58, president of Johns Hopkins University, topflight educator, a governmental pro of 30 years' experience, youngest of the brothers Eisenhower and the man nearest to Ike in all the world...
...tiny faculty-last year it numbered seven-took on a challenging task from Mildred Mudd, who died last month (see MILESTONES), and her fellow trustees: to create a topflight college of science and engineering, and to build its curriculum up from basic science, not from other colleges' texts and courses. A further provision: 35% of each student's study was to be in the humanities, a proportion larger than is required at such schools as M.I.T. and Caltech. "We need creative, responsible scientists and engineers," explains young (43), pipe-smoking President Joseph B. Platt, head of the physics...