Word: vanderbilt
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...Others in the top ten: 2) Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 3) Mrs. Wyatt Cooper (Gloria Vanderbilt), 4) Mrs. Giancarlo Uzielli (Anne Ford) and Mrs. Stavros Niarchos (Charlotte Ford), paired "because their tastes are identical," 5) Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, 6) Mrs. Kirk Douglas, 7) Mrs. Angus Ogilvy (Princess Alexandra of Kent), 9) Mrs. Charles Engelhard, 10) Mrs. William McCormick Blair (wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines...
...biggest form reversal occurred in Los Angeles, where No. 2-ranked Vanderbilt had its nine-game winning streak snapped by Southern California 74-72. U.S.C.'s opponent in the final of the Los Angeles Classic was cross-town rival U.C.L.A., which started the season No. 1 and fell all the way out of the Top Ten when Playmaker Freddie Goss was laid up with a mysterious ailment and the Bruins lost three out of four. Last week Goss was back in action, and Coach Johnny Wooden's Bruins were looking more and more like the team that...
These four-Vanderbilt's Alexander Heard, Emory's Sanford S. Atwood, Tulane's Herbert Longenecker and Duke's Douglas Knight-are all nationally oriented administrators who refuse to keep old Southern traditions at the cost of academic quality. Of the quartet, only Heard is from the South, showing how trustees of their schools reached out to seek the best available men anywhere. Yet Savannah-born Alex Heard, 48, is even more outspokenly critical of Southern educational provincialism than the three Northerners. "We in the South cannot duck behind the thought that if we show...
Self-Study. Political Scientist Heard came to Vanderbilt from the deanship of the University of North Carolina's graduate school. Taking over two years ago, he ordered a self-study in which 285 faculty and staff members produced a massive critical report. Heard read all 36 Ibs. of it, now uses it as a basis for measuring Vanderbilt's progress. He created a separate department of molecular biology and a division of bio-medical sciences, established a "distinguished professor" rank with high salaries to attract top talent, and overhauled the sociology department...
Heard argues that "the most pervasive aspiration of our time is for greater human freedom," insists that a university must "maintain an open forum" and defend the academic freedom of both faculty and students. He also stresses service to nearby Negro colleges: Vanderbilt now has faculty-exchange programs with Nashville's Fisk University and the cross-town Meharry Medical School, one of the South's main sources of Negro doctors...