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...further than that. I'll say I was stupid." Onetime Cinemactress Karen (Scarface) Morley, with Manhattan's party-lining ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio along for legal aid, was less naive. She admitted that she was 42 and that her real name was Mildred Linton Vider. But, 33 times when asked questions chiefly about Communist affiliation, she called on the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...elimination on the basis of scholarship is no more effective. Too many men enter college with high grades only to prove themselves unprepared to make the most of their opportunities by graduating "viser but not vider" as Mr. Weller expressed it. Others who barely pass their C.E.E.B.'s become the outstanding men in their class not only in social affairs but scholastically as well. As a remedy for this difficulty Columbia has instituted mental tests for admission and the Harvard Business School has also been experimenting with them in an effort to provide an equable basis on which to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "VIDER AND VISER" | 5/6/1922 | See Source »

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