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Twice each year, after the deluge of term bills, a handful of bankrupt undergraduates scurry over to University and Lehman Halls for loans to meet their expenses. For non-veterans these University loans present the best possible solution to financial problems. But for the veteran, waiting patiently for a wayward government check, the current lending arrangement imposes an unnecessary burden on his slim resources...
...world, for any one paper to tell all the truth), it is valuable to read two with opposite policies to get an idea of what is really happening." It also provides him with copy for a witty-and sometimes windy-department in the New Yorker called "The Wayward Press," a running commentary on the behavior of the daily (mainly Manhattan) newspapers. This week in The Wayward Pressman (Doubleday; $2.95), Liebling publishes a collection of his columns with enough autobiographical notes to establish his credentials...
...elfin, almost intangible bird fancier who is overjoyed when he finds a "caged" human; and the plump, insidious informer in a flowered dress who slyly traps the unsuspecting rebels these and the others present a pageant that stands up with Bank's best. Hollywood should watch out lest some wayward Goalie breath blow down its neck and whisper that perhaps it, too, is not long for this world. D.P.S...
Life with Olla. Papa Eskelund's real affairs are told in this book, prised out of him by his son Karl, with the help of some good stiff drinks of a Guatemalan liquor called olla. As the story of a wayward parent, My Danish Father is a lineal descendant of the family-chronicle light biography (Papa Was a Preacher; Mother Wore Tights). Son Karl, a lanky, amiable onetime United Press correspondent in China, made the best-seller lists 18 months ago with a variation on the theme called My Chinese Wife. In My Danish Father, he has mixed...
...hint of the "tact" and "skill" Dean Hanford used in his personal relations with wayward students was reported in the Alumni Bulletin...