Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope none of this gets back to the States. I'm going home to get married to a nice girl." But the story, floating out in the ship's wake, was already around the world. The original Ada Rehan would have been horrified to learn how her name was being bandied about...
...specialist in Elizabethan tragedy and modern poetry. Dressed in tweed jacket, grey flannels and loud bow tie, he grips his lectern and recites poetry in a flowing, resonant voice and a Philadelphia accent improved in Britain. Characteristic advice to students: to understand James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "lie on your bed, hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course in creative writing, limited to 20 select students (among its famed grads: Emerson, Thoreau...
...North Carolina, where tobacco talks, Trinity [Methodist] College changed its name to Duke University for $1,000,000 a year of the late James B. Duke's money. Last week 112-year-old Wake Forest [Baptist] College agreed to walk no miles for some Camel cigaret money...
...college voted to move from Wake Forest (pop. 1,800), in the eastern part of the state, to Winston-Salem, the Camel capital. The lure: a free campus-probably "Reynolda," the 300-acre estate of Tobacco Heir (and Presbyterian) Zachary Smith Reynolds*-and $350,000 annual income. The college will keep its name and Baptist independence. The catch: North Carolina Baptists must raise $4 million to pay for the new buildings in Winston-Salem. Last week Wake Forest's Board of Trustees and the Baptist General Board voted that it could be done-and talked enthusiastically of a campus...
...Wake Forest's decision to move must be ratified by North Carolina's 600,000 Baptists in state convention in November, but most Baptists thought the chances were good. The Rev. Dr. Levy L. Carpenter, who edits the official Baptist Biblical Recorder, was not so optimistic. The offer, he said, is "magnificent." But, warned he: "Wake Forest may lose its soul as a denominational and Christian institution if it accepts such a large gift from outside sources...