Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blue Books. Chicago-born John Macy himself could well be first on the list for any number of Administration posts. He was a Phi Beta Kappa and Rhodes scholar nominee at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.,entered Government service through the National Institute of Public Affairs, served as a personnel staff officer in the Army Air Forces. In 1947 he was given a 90-day assignment to run personnel and organization for the Atomic Energy Commission in Santa Fe, N. Mex., stayed on to act as Los Alamos town manager as well until 1951. He joined the Civil Service Commission...
Harvard has run through Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, and the late Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings. Wesleyan's Center for Advanced Studies has attracted Author Paul Horgan. Some artists become permanent faculty fixtures, such as Yale's Novelist Robert Penn Warren and Minnesota's Poet Allen Tate. Saul Bellow, temporary writer in residence at Chicago, has fit so unobtrusively into the faculty that Coed Barbara Samuels observes: "For us he's the teacher, not the great novelist...
...their proper role, openly subsidize the artist's work. Of the relatively unknown but promising Niccolò Tucci, Columbia's Writing Program Chairman John Humphries explains: "It is not a question of what Mr. Tucci can do for us, but what we can do for Mr. Tucci." Wesleyan once discovered that an artist can be given too much freedom: one famed visitor spent his subsidized time preparing lecture notes for high-priced delivery at another university...
Glory & Dedication. At 46, Iconoclast Smith has climbed up the "professional progress chart" he offers in his book just as fast as the mythical Conformist Goodfellow. The pastor of the 2,200-member Wesley Methodist Church in Bloomington, Ill., Smith is a trustee of Illinois Wesleyan University, has a rich cherry-red rug in his office, drives a red Dodge convertible and aspires to own a Jaguar sedan. A few times a year he takes his blonde wife Betty, whom he married for "irrelevant reasons," to New York for a round of Broadway shows and dinner at Lu-chow...
...tournament, the most important event in pre-season competition, has been split into sections this year to pit teams of roughly even ability against one another. Harvard hopes to finish near the top of the second group, with the Crimson's chief opposition coming from Kings Point, Wesleyan, M.I.T., Bucknell, and C.W. Post...