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...John E. Wideman. 21. the son of a Pittsburgh waiter, is a senior majoring in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Wideman won the campus creative-writing prize, last month got his Phi Beta Kappa key. this year captained Penn's undefeated basketball team. Last week, hours after hurdling the Rhodes selection committee. Captain Wideman led Penn to victory over Vanderbilt topped his team's scoring with 18 points. His Oxford agenda: language and literature in order to teach college English...
...suffragan bishop of the nation's most blueblooded Episcopal diocese is the son of a dining-car waiter on the Pere Marquette Railroad. Upon his consecration two weeks ago as one of the two auxiliaries to Boston Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., the Rt. Rev John Melville Burgess became the first Negro† ever to serve the Protestant Episcopal Church as spiritual leader in a predominantly white diocese...
...phone disconnected. His four children were jeered at by their schoolmates. His own friends teased him about being pro-Red. "You get rather tired of it," he said. "At a recent dinner, it was good for 20 minutes of needling for me to ask the waiter to bring Russian dressing for my shrimp...
Died. Ludwig Bemelmans. 64, bubbly, urbane caricaturist whose lighthearted paintings and gently satirical books delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...
...been heard to ask anyone to call her Missus, and her prince-like most of the Eastern Europeans stashed around London, Paris and New York-would probably sooner surrender his Cadillac than his title. Around the Radziwill family, all males are called prince-except Cousin Antony, a Bayswater wine waiter, who is rarely called at all, at least by the Radziwills...