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Dartmouth won the Vanderbilt tournament, whipping the host team in the process. And Cornell, which had a 1-5 record before Christmas, surprised Brigham Young 68-62, and shocked Villanova. 63-58. Only Brown, who is destined for a dismal season, fared poorly...
BRINKLEY, David, 49, NBC News correspondent. Born in Wilmington, N.C., dropped out of high school but took courses at University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University. Reporter for Wilmington Star-News, 1938-41. Bureau manager in South for United Press Associations, 1941-43. Became NBC Washington correspondent, 1943; in 1956 was teamed with Huntley. Separated, three children...
Coat of Protein. Delbruck, who was born in Germany, and Luria, from Italy, met at Vanderbilt University in 1940 and began to cooperate in their studies of bacteriophages. Luria soon discovered that mutations (a variation in characteristics from one generation to the next) occurred in the viruses, and that these changes were passed on to succeeding generations. Delbrück found that the genetic materials of different kinds of viruses infecting the same cell sometimes combined, producing a new and different kind of virus...
...nation's first under-30 university trustees, most of them recent graduates, have been appointed this year at Maine, Lehigh, Princeton and Vanderbilt. The eight state universities in Kentucky have begun to admit student leaders as ex officio trustees. In Vermont, Wyoming and Washington, legislatures are weighing proposals to name youthful members to state university governing boards...
Whether young trustees will actually influence their elders remains to be seen. Vanderbilt has made room for four students on its 36-member board, but they are still a compact minority. J. L. Zwingle, director of the Association of College Governing Boards, scoffs at the youth-leaning trend as "cosmetic, not substantive." The real decisions, he says, "are made in the committees of administrators and faculty." Still, many students see the appointment of young people to a school's highest policy-making body as at least a welcome step in the right direction...